Server Placement with Shared Backups for Disaster-Resilient Clouds

A Placement Vulnerability Study in Multi-Tenant Public Clouds

Public infrastructure-as-a-service clouds, such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Microsoft Azure allow clients to run virtual machines (VMs) on shared physical infrastructure. This practice of multi-tenancy brings economies of scale, but also introduces the risk of sharing a physical server with an arbitrary and potentially malicious VM. Past works have demonstrated how to place a...

The Resilient Child Indicators in Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review Protocol

Background: Annually, Children as a major group have affected in disasters all over the world. As resilience terminology has been appeared in disaster risk reduction to improve more attention on human ability instead of concentration on his vulnerability. It seems that child resiliency may be the best approach to decrease their vulnerability. Although there are lot studies on resiliency, child ...

Data Backups and Disaster Recovery Planning

Data Backups in the Clouds

In the paper we present a concept of making backups in the cloud. We discuss the current practice of making backup copies of data enabling backups to be stored in a separate location and analyze the possibility of making backups in the cloud. We mainly focus on the economic and performance aspects of using cloud computing for making backup copies of data.

RSCMap: Resiliency Planning in Storage Clouds

Storage clouds use economies of scale to host data for diverse enterprises. However, enterprises differ in the requirements for their data. In this work, we investigate the problem of resiliency or disaster recovery (DR) planning in a storage cloud. The resiliency requirements vary greatly between different enterprises and also between different datasets for the same enterprise. We present in t...