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Providing Dependability and Resilience in the Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities

, , , , , , , and . Resilience Assessment and Evaluation of Computing Systems, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-642-29031-2.(2012)

Abstract

Cloud Computing is a novel paradigm for providing data center resources as on demand services in a pay-as-you-go manner. It promises significant cost savings by making it possible to consolidate workloads and share infrastructure resources among multiple applications resulting in higher cost- and energy-efficiency. However, these benefits come at the cost of increased system complexity and dynamicity posing new challenges in providing service dependability and resilience for applications running in a Cloud environment. At the same time, the virtualization of physical resources, inherent in Cloud Computing, provides new opportunities for novel dependability and quality-of-service management techniques that can potentially improve system resilience. In this chapter, we first discuss in detail the challenges and opportunities introduced by the Cloud Computing paradigm. We then provide a review of the state-of-the-art on dependability and resilience management in Cloud environments, and conclude with an overview of emerging research directions.

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