Author(s)

Rizik M. H. Al-Sayyed¹, Hussam N. Fakhouri², Sharefa F. Murad³, Sandi N. Fakhouri⁴

¹King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, Department of Business Information Technology, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
²King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
³Faculty of Computer Science, Middle East University, Amman, Jordan.
⁴Income and Sales Tax Department, Amman, Jordan.

This work proposes the adoption of Autonomic Computing System (ACS) in Cloud environment. ACS was first introduced by IBM to create systems capable of managing automatic self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization and self-protection. These systems detect errors that cause failure, and then recover and reconfigure itself. The concept is wildly adapted by many software applications that have many restoring and recovery functionality such as operating systems (e.g. Windows Server 2012). This paper proposes a cloud ACS (CACS) for cloud computing environment that monitors, diagnoses, checks and heals cloud applications automatically and immediately with almost unnoticeable recovery time. In order to evaluate CACS, an application has been developed and applied for real time cloud applications. The results of different experiments scenarios demonstrate the ability of adopting the proposed system to heal well cloud applications. CACS is also compared with Windows Server 2012 operating system in terms of healing ability, speed, cost, methodology and other informative information. CACS showed domination in almost all of these properties.

Cloud Applications, Self-Healing, Auto-Restoring, Auto-Backup

Al-Sayyed, R. , Fakhouri, H. , Murad, S. and Fakhouri, S. (2017) CACS: Cloud Environment Autonomic Computing System. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 10, 273-287. doi: 10.4236/jsea.2017.103016.