cloud data management

ISO/IEC 19831:2015 description

describes the model and protocol for management interactions between a cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Provider and the Consumers of an IaaS service.

ISO/IEC 19831:2015

Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Model and RESTful HTTP-based Protocol

CIMI addresses what

the management of the lifecycle of infrastructure provided by a Provider.

Software suites integrating solutions for

Management

Automation

Evaluation

Provision

Orchestration

Service Level Agreements terms

Uptime percentage

Amount of traffic at a given time (bandwidth)

Data rate or bandwidth limitations

Performance and capacity of resources

Schedule requirements for notifications (planned maintenance and outages)

Help desk response times, scope, limitations

Security

Privacy

Availability

Privacy Level Agreement

Identity of the Cloud Service Provider

Ways in which the data will be processed

Data Transfer

Data Security

Monitoring and/or auditing in order to ensure that appropriate privacy and security measures

Personal data breach notification

Data portability

Data retention

Accountability

Cooperation

Legally required disclosure

Data Tiering

allows us to control where (how) data is going to be stored based on performance, cost, availability, and recovery requirements

tier o

data that is mission-critical, frequently accessed, recently accessed OR requires high degree of security

tier 1

data that is generated by major business applications (ERP/CRM), email, essential documents

tier 2

data that is still important, but not necessary for daily business operations, such as financial or transactional data or machine-generated data

tier 3

data that must be retained, such as long-term backup, old financial and historical records, compliance requirements, email historical retention for long periods of time

Virtual disks

Can reside on a single physical hard drive

Can be striped across multiple physical drives and possibly across multiple availability zones

Virtual Network Interface Card (virtual NIC)

Appears to guest OS as NIC

Unique MAC address

Can be bridged to real network through physical NIC

Can be connected to virtual network (on host machine)

availability zone

is a distinct location within a region and is insulated from failures in any other zone.