Case study

Data center destruction

One of the worst-case scenarios that a modern business can face is a disaster that destroys part or
all of its data center – and all of the servers and disks inside it.
While such a situation is rare, it can happen, and not only as a result of a major natural disaster
like an earthquake or hurricane. Issues such as electrical surges and even ill-fated squirrels can cause
permanent data center damage.
The best way to prepare your business for recovery from this type of disaster is to ensure that you
have offsite copies of your data. If your production data lives on-premise in one of your data
centers, this would mean keeping backups of the data at another data center site or in the cloud. If
your data is hosted in the cloud, you could back it up to local storage, to another cloud or a different
region of the same cloud.
You will also want to make sure that you have a way of restoring the backup data to new
infrastructure quickly. Moving large amounts of data from one site to another over the Internet can
take a long time, so it’s not always a wise strategy within the context of disaster recovery. In some
cases, it might be faster to move physical copies of disks from one site to another. Alternatively, it
might prove quicker and easier to stand up new servers in the data center where your backup data
lives, then connect them to the backup data and turn them into your production servers.
The bottom line: Restoring data after data center destruction requires having offsite copies of the
data available, as well as a plan for moving that data quickly to wherever it needs to go following the
disaster in order to keep your business running.
 Q1: Discuss the disaster described in the given case study in your own words.
Answer
The main risk in this business is natural disasters which will cause us to lost our data like Any kind of
disasters which includes earthquakes , electricity effects and system crashes. By these we may lost
over server system which has our whole company data. We must have backup for avoiding disasters
Data can be lost by misused by employee
Hacking can effect data as well

Q2: Go through the lecture “Overview of Real time systems” and discuss which concept can be
mapped on the applied solution
“Restoring data after data center destruction requires having offsite copies of the data available”
Answer:
Reconfiguration will be used
It removes faults from system and locates them
Fault shoukd be iaolated
It should be recovered
• Q3: The given case study involves the technology of cloud. Search through internet and discuss what is the purpose of cloud and how it is
beneficial.
• Answer
Cloud Refers to Internet. The type of Data we downloaded by softwares or software and servers installed in our building we can access
them by cloud using Internet. It’s use of hardware and software through Internet
Benefits of clouds includes accessing our data from far end
Its mobility is useful for accessing data on mobiles and laptops
It includes backup and restore option which is so useful if we lost our data
Security
Cost effective because we don’t need much things to purchase and maintain