Business Continuity Management in Data Center Environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holmes E. Miller ◽  
Kurt J. Engemann
Keyword(s):  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Business Continuity Management ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Response And Recovery

In this article, the authors discuss how business continuity methodologies can be used by data centers to respond to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and accidents. Because organizations depend on computing services, which may become unavailable when disasters strike, prudent risk management processes can provide for continuation and recovery of operations. With a focus on data centers, this article discusses the business continuity plan development process. This article also considers elements of a business continuity management plan, which includes strategy development, preparedness, mitigation, exercises, and response and recovery, and discuss business continuity strategies for colocation and cloud-based data center architectures. Finally, the authors discuss how the ordered weighted average (OWA) methodology can be used to incorporate a decision makers risk profile when confronted with decisions related to the processes discussed.

scholarly journals Crisis Management

Hadmérnök ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 352-370
Author(s):  
Zsolt Zólyomi
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
Business Continuity Management ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Crisis Management Plan

The security professionals are always talking about Emergency Plan, Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response, Crisis Management, Crisis Management Plan, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Plan. etc. That is a question whichcomes to my mind do we know exactly what these phrases meanings are? My experiences show, usually we have different interpretations on the above mentioned expressions. Briefly we need to have an Emergency Plan to provide our Emergency Preparedness and to be able to take our Emergency Responses in case of a real Emergency situation. If we were able to eliminate the Emergency situation the problemhas been solved. If we had no success the Emergency can be develop a crisis situation which we need to manage by the Crisis Management Plan. As we are over the crisis we need to adopt our Business Continuity Plan to be able to manage our continuous operationor production. The aim of this study to providea useful tool or set up for security leaders on Crisis Management which is a clear security task and not as like Emergency Preparedness which is related to safety organization as Business Continuity is connected to each business functions.

Implementation of User-End Broker Policy to Improve the Reliability of Cloud Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jitendra Singh ◽  
Vikas Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Multiple Data ◽  
Single Data ◽  
Selection Of

Outage in cloud computing services is a critical issue and is primarily attributed to the single data center connectivity. To address the cloud outage, this work proposes a model for the subscription and selection of more than one data center. Selection of data center can be determined by the usage of broker at the user ends itself. Provision of broker at user's end reduces the overhead at provider's end; as a result performance of cloud data center improves. For the selection of appropriate data center, broker takes the feedback from the available data centers, and select one of them. During the selection of cloud, their status (up/down) at that particular time is also considered. In case of outage at one data center, other can be selected from the available list. Broker also facilitates the homogeneous use of cloud by allotting the load to less congested data centers. Experimental results revealed that multiple data center approach is not only helpful in countering the outage (as other data center can be selected from the broker) but also the usage cost.

A Systems Overview of Commercial Data Centers

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sardar Khaliq Uzaman ◽  
Atta ur Rehman Khan ◽  
Junaid Shuja ◽  
Tahir Maqsood ◽  
Faisal Rehman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Power Usage Effectiveness

Data center facilities play a vital role in present and forthcoming information and communication technologies. Internet giants, such as IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and Amazon hold large data centers to provide cloud computing services and web hosting applications. Due to rapid growth in data center size and complexity, it is essential to highlight important design aspects and challenges of data centers. This article presents market segmentation of the leading data center operators and discusses the infrastructural considerations, namely energy consumption, power usage effectiveness, cost structure, and system reliability constraints. Moreover, it presents data center network design, classification of the data center servers, recent developments, and future trends of the data center industry. Furthermore, the emerging paradigm of mobile cloud computing is debated with respect to the research issues. Preliminary results for the energy consumption of task scheduling techniques are also provided.

scholarly journals Energy-efficient Scheduling of Cloud Data Center Servers

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1769-1772
Keyword(s):  
Data Center ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Cloud Data Center ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Computing Services

Data center is a cost-effective infrastructure to store large data volumes and host large-scale service applications. Providers of cloud computing services are deploying data centers worldwide quickly. With lots of servers and switches. These data centers consume substantial quantities of energy, which contributes to high operating costs. Optimizing server and network energy consumption in information centers can therefore decrease operating costs. In a data center, power utilization is chiefly because of servers, network devices, and cooling systems, an effective energy-saving strategy is to consolidate computing and communication into fewer servers and network devices and then power off as many unneeded servers and network devices as possible. A new method of reducing the energy utilization of computer systems and networks in data centers while meeting the requirements of the cloud tenants for quality of service (QoS) is proposed here in this paper.

Data Center Equipment Reliability Concerns—Contamination Issues, Standards Actions, and Case Studies

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Muller ◽  
Chuck Arent ◽  
Henry Yu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Electronic Equipment ◽  
Circuit Board ◽  
Lead Free ◽  
Reliable Operation ◽  
Contamination Assessment ◽  
Equipment Reliability ◽  
Equipment Failures

Abstract Lead-free manufacturing regulations, reduction in circuit board feature sizes and the miniaturization of components to improve hardware performance have combined to make data center IT equipment more prone to attack by corrosive contaminants. Manufacturers are under pressure to control contamination in the data center environment and maintaining acceptable limits is now critical to the continued reliable operation of datacom and IT equipment. This paper will discuss ongoing reliability issues with electronic equipment in data centers and will present updates on ongoing contamination concerns, standards activities, and case studies from several different locations illustrating the successful application of contamination assessment, control, and monitoring programs to eliminate electronic equipment failures.

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