 Storage
Management in Cloud Environments
Cloud-based systems have brought a new, scalable application delivery
service model to the market. Cloud services promise to help reduce capital
and operational costs while providing higher service levels.
However, Cloud services rely heavily on keeping the data and applications
they are managing available at all times, and to restore operations quickly
following any type of data disaster (database corruption, virus attack,
hardware failure, local/regional disaster).
There are several models for Cloud computing, including private clouds
(where the deployment is within the organization’s firewall) and public
clouds (where the application services and data are hosted by a third party
outside the firewall). Consistent data availability is a critical success
factor for any Cloud deployment. Customers need to ensure that data is
adequately protected and can be restored in a timely fashion following any
disruption event.
Cloud administrators need to ensure that a minimum of data is at risk by
performing backups as frequently as possible, to meet stringent Recovery
Point Objectives (RPO). And downtime must be limited as well following an
outage to meet strict Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
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