Abstract
Reliability is a tag that can be attached to any product or service delivery. Mere attachment of this tag will exhibit the perceived characteristics such as trustworthiness and consistent performance. This tag becomes more important for the cloud computing environments, due to its strong dependence on internet for its service delivery. Cloud adoption eliminates IT overhead, but it also brings in security, privacy, availability, and reliability issues. Based on the survey by Juniper Research Agency, the number of worldwide cloud service consumers is projected to be 3.6 billion in 2018. Cloud computing market is flooded with numerous cloud service providers. It is a herculean task for the consumers to choose a CSP to best suit their business needs. Possessing reliability tag for services will help CSPs to outshine their competitors. This chapter deals with the reliability aspect of cloud environments. Various reliability requirements with respect to business along with basic understanding of cloud reliability concepts are detailed in this chapter.
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Abbreviations
- BC:
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Business continuity
- IA:
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Information availability
- MTTF:
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Mean time to failure
- MTTR:
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Mean time to recovery
- MTBF:
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Mean time between failure
- ERP:
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Enterprise resource planning
- SRE:
-
Software reliability engineering
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Kumar, V., Vidhyalakshmi, R. (2018). Cloud Reliability. In: Reliability Aspect of Cloud Computing Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3023-0_2
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