Mission-Critical Cloud Computing for Critical Infrastructures

Smart Grids ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thoshitha Gamage ◽  
David Anderson ◽  
David Bakken ◽  
Kenneth Birman ◽  
Anjan Bose ◽  
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Author(s):  
B. George ◽  
K. Shams ◽  
D. Knight ◽  
J. Kinney

Cloud computing is constantly evolving with innovations. So, the cloud service providers are investing big in finding solutions for the challenges confronted by the business organizations in the ever-changing technological world. However, still, there is a little reluctance among the organizations to ultimately adopt the public cloud because the mission-critical applications and the mission-critical data require high-level security and availability which are questionable in the equally growing hacking technology. The hacker's comfort zone is Internet, and the Internet is the primary medium for communication between enterprises and cloud service providers. So, the cloud service providers come up with a solution called Direct-Cloud which bypasses the internet and establishes a private connection between the enterprise and cloud service provider. The primary objective of this paper is to familiarize the terminology direct-cloud as it makes a massive move in Cloud Computing. So, this paper presents a study that describes direct-cloud, its architecture, benefits, the comparison between different direct-cloud solutions and the guidelines to choose a suitable direct-cloud solution. Also, the terminologies Multi-Cloud and ConnectedCloud are gaining attention among the enterprises to meet the growing needs of the business. Hence the paper further explores the direct-cloud deployment in the multi-cloud and connected-cloud environment


Author(s):  
Sam Goundar ◽  
Akashdeep Bhardwaj

With mission critical web applications and resources being hosted on cloud environments, and cloud services growing fast, the need for having greater level of service assurance regarding fault tolerance for availability and reliability has increased. The high priority now is ensuring a fault tolerant environment that can keep the systems up and running. To minimize the impact of downtime or accessibility failure due to systems, network devices or hardware, the expectations are that such failures need to be anticipated and handled proactively in fast, intelligent way. This article discusses the fault tolerance system for cloud computing environments, analyzes whether this is effective for Cloud environments.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 10-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhijiang Chen ◽  
Guobin Xu ◽  
Vivek Mahalingam ◽  
Linqiang Ge ◽  
James Nguyen ◽  
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