ITS532 | Recommendation of BCP for Adopting Hybrid Cloud

1.Recommendation of BCP for Adopting Hybrid Cloud and Microservices Approach

MetaSoft Ltd has decided to adopt hybrid cloud and microservices approach for their business (Ali, Khan & Vasilakos, 2015). The negative impacts on the operations of business like interruption in supply chain as well as damage and loss on the critical infrastructure are well treated and the risks are minimized with BCP.

Figure 1: Business Continuity Plan

(Source: Moreno-Vozmediano, Montero & Llorente, 2013)

It is highly recommended to include some of the major features and aspects within the business continuity planning for MetaSoft Ltd.

1. i) Data Recovery: The first and the foremost feature that is to be included within business continuity planning is data recovery. This particular feature helps to provide recovery of data even after the data is damaged or lost completely.
2. ii) Business Continuity Strategy: This business continuity strategy should also be included for protecting the data on premises within the physical as well as virtual servers in the cloud.
3. iii) Resolving Bandwidth Issues: The next important and significant recommendation for MetaSoft Ltd for including within their business continuity planning to adopt hybrid cloud and microservices approach is to resolve the various bandwidth issues (Botta et al., 2014).

1. iv) Accessing Applications: The various applications should be accessed properly by the staffs of MetaSoft Ltd so that they are able to transfer the critical information or data on he hybrid cloud.
2. i) Application Resilience: The various issues related to application resilience in hybrid cloud are as follows:
3. a) The first issue of application resilience is the lack of security. There is always a major chance of data loss.
4. b) The lack of scalability is the next important issue here.
5. c) The application failure is the third significant issue of application resilience.
6. ii) Backup: The various issues related to backup in hybrid cloud are as follows:
7. a) The first and the foremost issue of backup is the impact and cost of backups of the on premises data to cloud (Pearson, 2013).
8. b) There is a fixed limit of the uploading speed and hence the bandwidth is limited here.

iii) Disaster Recovery: The various issues related to disaster recovery in hybrid cloud are as follows:

1. a) The first issue is the constant change of the cloud infrastructure.
2. b) The next issue would be that such recoveries are extremely costly and hence is not afforded by everyone.
3. c) The disaster recovery is one of the slowest and the most laborious procedure and thus is quite problematic for hybrid cloud in MetaSoft Ltd (Chen et al., 2016)

2.Requirements for Conducting Remote Server Administration and SLA Management

The remote server administration as well as the SLA management is quite important for MetaSoft Ltd as both of these are responsible for increasing the overall effectiveness and efficiency of hybrid cloud. The application manager of Manage Engine would be extremely beneficial for the SLA in MetaSoft Ltd. The data centre operations could be properly scrutinized if remote server administration will be included within the organization (Moreno-Vozmediano, Montero & Llorente, 2013). Since, the previously existing infrastructure of this particular company requires better automation for moving forward, the administration of remote server is much effective. The organization of MetaSoft Ltd eventually looks beyond the server virtualization for obtaining better efficiency and they could utilize the capabilities of Windows Server 2016.

The major requirements of the remote server administration for the proposed IaaS and PaaS instances of MetaSoft Ltd are as follows:

1. i) The first and the foremost requirement of conducting remote server administration is that VMware should copy the entire state of RAM.
2. ii) When the VMware snapshot is reverted, the respective remote server would also revert to the past time.

iii) Another significant requirement for conduction of remote server administration is to check the backup technology, instead of system buffer for creating the consistent snapshot in the file system (Chen et al., 2016).

1. iv) The fourth important requirement is that the various check points should trigger the entire stack that is to be compiled urgently.
2. v) Moreover, the DNS server should be installed, set up, configured and finally supported.
3. vi) The mail servers should also be installed and maintained and there must be security related configurations.

The most significant requirements for conducting SLA management for the proposed IaaS and PaaS instances of MetaSoft Ltd are as follows:

1. i) The first and the most important or noteworthy requirement of this management of SLA is to identify the various business requirements by properly executing the business operations (Aazam & Huh, 2014).
2. ii) Another important requirement of this type of management is by establishing the significant scope of services, hours of operations, service performances, timelines and finally the recovery aspects of MetaSoft Ltd.

iii) Moreover, the service catalogue of the services should be developed as well as maintained by including the expenses of the various tiers of their service performance.

1. iv) A proper gap analysis within the available services and business requirements is the next important requirement.
2. v) The fifth important requirement is to determine the expenses of the services in such a manner that the service objectives could satisfy the business requirements at the reasonable and affordable price for MetaSoft Ltd (Chen et al., 2016).
3. vi) The measurement of the total performance, adjustments and reporting results of these SLA is the next vital requirement here.

References

Aazam, M., & Huh, E. N. (2014, August). Fog computing and smart gateway based communication for cloud of things. In Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), 2014 International Conference on (pp. 464-470). IEEE.

Ali, M., Khan, S. U., & Vasilakos, A. V. (2015). Security in cloud computing: Opportunities and challenges. Information sciences, 305, 357-383.

Botta, A., De Donato, W., Persico, V., & Pescapé, A. (2014, August). On the integration of cloud computing and internet of things. In Future internet of things and cloud (FiCloud), 2014 international conference on (pp. 23-30). IEEE.

Chen, X., Jiao, L., Li, W., & Fu, X. (2016). Efficient multi-user computation offloading for mobile-edge cloud computing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, (5), 2795-2808.

Moreno-Vozmediano, R., Montero, R. S., & Llorente, I. M. (2013). Key challenges in cloud computing: Enabling the future internet of services. IEEE Internet Computing, 17(4), 18-25.

Pearson, S. (2013). Privacy, security and trust in cloud computing. In Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing (pp. 3-42). Springer, London.