Paper Info
Title
Patch management automation for enterprise cloud
Abstract
Applying patches to operating systems, middleware, and applications is considered a major IT pain point due to several reasons. The operating systems and software are of myriad types, there is interdependency among the updates, operating system, and applications, there is lack of standardization among different enterprise customers, and finally testing the applications and operating systems post-update is challenging. As a result, human operator is involved in different stages of the patching process, making it costly and cumbersome. Cloud can help standardize various offerings to customers, and potentially remove human operators. However, it introduces other challenges such as VM time zones and restoring VMs from snapshots which are not present in traditional enterprise environments. We discuss the challenges of achieving patch automation in a Cloud, and then describe our solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211988
NOMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
enterprise cloud,operating systems post-update,patching process,vm restoration,virtual machines,operating systems (computers),human operator,patch management automation,middleware,business data processing,cloud computing,enterprise customers,application testing,automation,operating system,virtual machine monitor,virtual machine,operating systems
Interdependence,Middleware,Virtual machine,Computer science,Computer network,Automation,Software,Snapshot (computer storage),Standardization,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1542-1201 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-0268-5
978-1-4673-0268-5
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
3
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hai Huang1121.56
Salman Baset2699.66
Chunqiang Tang3128775.09
Ashu Gupta440.91
K. N. Madhu Sudhan520.44
Fazal Feroze620.44
Rajesh Garg720.44
Sumithra Ravichandran820.44