Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges

Information Technology (IT) data services provided by cloud providers (CPs) face significant challenges in maintaining services and their continuity during a disaster. The primary concern for data recovery (DR) in the cloud is finding ways to ensure that the process of data backup and recovery is e...

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Main Authors: Alshammari, Mohammad Matar, Alwan, Ali Amer, Nordin, Azlin, Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
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Published: IEEE 2018
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author Alshammari, Mohammad Matar
Alwan, Ali Amer
Nordin, Azlin
Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri
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Nordin, Azlin
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description Information Technology (IT) data services provided by cloud providers (CPs) face significant challenges in maintaining services and their continuity during a disaster. The primary concern for data recovery (DR) in the cloud is finding ways to ensure that the process of data backup and recovery is effective in providing high data availability, flexibility, and reliability at a reasonable cost. Numerous data backup solutions have been designed for a single-cloud architecture; however, making a single copy of data may not be sufficient because damage to data may cause irrecoverable loss during a disaster. Other solutions have involved multiple replications on more than one remote cloud provider (Multi-Cloud). Most suggested solutions have proposed obtaining a high level of reliability by producing at least three replicas of the data and either storing all replicas at a single location or distributing them over numerous remote locations. The drawbacks to this approach are high costs, large storage space consumption and (especially in the case of data-intensive cloud-based applications) increased network traffic. In this paper, we discuss the issues raised by DR for both Single-Cloud and MultiCloud environments. We also examine previous studies concerning cloud-based DR to highlight issues that researchers of cloud-based DR have considered to be most important.
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spelling iium-618452018-09-19T07:18:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/61845/ Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges Alshammari, Mohammad Matar Alwan, Ali Amer Nordin, Azlin Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software Information Technology (IT) data services provided by cloud providers (CPs) face significant challenges in maintaining services and their continuity during a disaster. The primary concern for data recovery (DR) in the cloud is finding ways to ensure that the process of data backup and recovery is effective in providing high data availability, flexibility, and reliability at a reasonable cost. Numerous data backup solutions have been designed for a single-cloud architecture; however, making a single copy of data may not be sufficient because damage to data may cause irrecoverable loss during a disaster. Other solutions have involved multiple replications on more than one remote cloud provider (Multi-Cloud). Most suggested solutions have proposed obtaining a high level of reliability by producing at least three replicas of the data and either storing all replicas at a single location or distributing them over numerous remote locations. The drawbacks to this approach are high costs, large storage space consumption and (especially in the case of data-intensive cloud-based applications) increased network traffic. In this paper, we discuss the issues raised by DR for both Single-Cloud and MultiCloud environments. We also examine previous studies concerning cloud-based DR to highlight issues that researchers of cloud-based DR have considered to be most important. IEEE 2018-02-01 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/61845/3/61845-Disaster%20Recovery%20in%20Single-Cloud%20and%20Multi-Cloud%20environments.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/61845/9/61845_Disaster%20recovery%20in%20single-cloud%20and%20multi-cloud_SCOPUS%20CONF.pdf Alshammari, Mohammad Matar and Alwan, Ali Amer and Nordin, Azlin and Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri (2018) Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges. In: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Applied Sciences (ICETAS), 29th November- 1st December 2017, Bahrain. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8277868/ 10.1109/ICETAS.2017.8277868
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
Alshammari, Mohammad Matar
Alwan, Ali Amer
Nordin, Azlin
Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri
Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges
title Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges
title_full Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges
title_fullStr Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges
title_full_unstemmed Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges
title_short Disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: Issues and challenges
title_sort disaster recovery in single-cloud and multi-cloud environments: issues and challenges
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/61845/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/61845/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/61845/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/61845/3/61845-Disaster%20Recovery%20in%20Single-Cloud%20and%20Multi-Cloud%20environments.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/61845/9/61845_Disaster%20recovery%20in%20single-cloud%20and%20multi-cloud_SCOPUS%20CONF.pdf