Management Backup and DR Powerful and Secure Platform

Question: Describe about the Management Backup and DR for Powerful and Secure Platform. Answer: Introduction Cloud platform is a powerful and secure platform that provides secure data access to its users. Cloud computing is a practice of using a network of remote servers that are hosted on internet to manage, store and process data. Use of cloud is important to run business at global level. But at cloud platform various risk of security and privacy are encountered by users due to hacking, phishing and denial of service attacks, Besides this, various other issues regarding remote administration, SLA management and resource management can also occurred, if all requirements will not be followed by users (Ali, 2014). Discussion In this segment of report, we will emphasize on all above listed important concepts regarding cloud platforms. (Support.microsoft.com, 2016) Management and Remote Administration The most important requirement of Child Protection Company is to perform remote locations and communications on cloud networks. To achieve this goal, company has to know about requirements of remote administration implementation (Castsoftware.com, 2016) Remote Administration This mechanism allows cloud users to perform their administrative activities and administrative tasks on remote locations easily and quickly. There are some requirements that necessary to fulfill: Cloud services must be settled and configured properly by cloud providers. Only then better services can be provided to cloud based users. Leasing cost and cost of service usage must be managed by cloud service providers properly. So that users can get service at reasonable price. IT resource provisioning must also be planned and evaluate properly. Capacity of cloud services that are provided to users must be planned properly. Resource Management Resource management program is used to expose APIs that are commonly used in cloud platforms for performing activities to access remote systems and to store data on those systems. The basic platform that is used by resource management is virtual machine image repository platform. To implement resource management properly following requirements are necessary to fulfill. Administrator portal that will be used by administrator. An effective user interface for managing various resource management tasks at internal level. SLA Management All commercially available products of cloud computing are represented by SLA management. SLA stands for Service Level Agreement which is an important agreement for all service providers and they have to follow this. The main features of these products are collection, storage, runtime, administration, reporting and notification about SLA data. For deploying this essential SLA management mechanism following requirement are necessary to fulfill. First requirement is of repository to store and retrieve SLA data. This data is important because it is collected from different information sources. The system that used to collect SLA data, monitoring of that system is very much necessary, because on the behalf of this data decision making is done. Backup and DR While providing cloud services to users, it is necessary for cloud providers take care about backup and data recovery (Technet.microsoft.com, 2016). Application Resilience When an application responds to one of its components and provide best service then it is known as application resilience. This is a testing process which is also known as non-function testing. The main purpose of this process is to make every component in an infrastructure more reliable and efficient. Application resilience will be helpful to achieve goal of Child Protection Company to maintain security and privacy of every component on cloud infrastructure. Application resilience is helpful to evaluate failures and security risk factors that can occur over network. Cloud providers must implement application resilience in Child Protection Company and other companies to enhance security and privacy of data. For data exchange services, application resilience is important. Backup and Disaster Recovery Backup and disaster recovery is an important concept and it is necessary to prevent data from loss or damage. Due to network vulnerabilities important data can be lost. The protection of that data is necessary. In this case, backup and disaster recovery can provide help. On cloud platform, a huge amount of data is sending and receiving by users, in this case, unauthorized users always try to access their information such as personal or credit card information. Besides this, they conduct malware attacks on network that destroy whole database. In this case if we have backup of data into another computer, then data can be saved. It is also an important scheme to protect exchanged data files over network from vulnerable attacks. Evaluation of SLA SLA is an important mechanism to deal with cloud products that are used for storing and accessing data from remote locations. SLA must be followed by cloud providers and it ensures that accurate service is provided by providers to users. There are some guidelines of SLA for cloud platform that are required to follow by providers: (Salesforce.com, 2016) First guideline of cloud platform defines that essential characteristics of cloud computing are demand self-service and broad network access. Besides this, Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service are four models of cloud platform. The deployment models of cloud should be public and hybrid. Service level agreement must be followed by cloud services. Security and privacy level objectives must be fulfilled by cloud providers for maintaining confidentiality, integrity and availability of data on cloud platform. Proper and accurate data management is also necessary. Cloud service provider must have code of conduct and security certification. Conclusion This report will be helpful for management of Child Protection Company to underhand important factors of cloud computing. Through this report, company can know about actual requirements of remote and resource management and why Service Level Agreement is considered important for service providers. The importance of data backup is also discussed here, so technical experts of Child Protection Company must understand above discussed important information about cloud platform. This will help to maintain long term security of data on cloud platform. References Technet.microsoft.com. (2016). Backup, restore, and disaster recovery. 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