Cloud Standby Deployment: A Model-Driven Deployment Method for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Disaster recovery planning and securing business processes against outtakes have been essential parts of running a company for decades. As IT systems have become more important, and especially since more and more revenue is generated over the Internet, securing the IT systems that support the business processes against outages is essential. For cost reasons, we proposed Cloud Computing for disaster recovery in prior work. In order to update and deploy a standby system, however, a deployment method that allows a provider independent, automated deployment of distributed systems is necessary. In this work we present such a deployment method. We show that by using Cloud Standby Deployment, the recovery time can be reduced significantly, and the distributed system can be deployed provider independently.