Análisis comparativo de la viabilidad técnica-financiera para la implementación de un centro de datos alterno para la Universidad de Cuenca, provincia del Azuay, Ecuador

Abstract

The current work presents a comparative analysis of two options for implementing a backup data center for the “University of Cuenca”, each of the options consists on the construction of a facility for hardware storage and the implementation of a data center in a data cloud. This study belongs to the pre-investment phase of the project named "Implementation of a Backup Data Center for the University of Cuenca”, which aims to count on a contingency side for maintaining a redundancy system of critical applications and data backup. The methodology applied permitted to examine the regarding standards and implementation techniques of redundant systems centers for application redundancy and information backups. The requirements and processes have been closely analyzed in order to construct a physical data center and the implementation of a cloud infrastructure according to the requirements that the University of Cuenca demands. As result to this analysis, it was found that the implementation of a data center in a data cloud is the most convenient option for the University, as it presents evident financial and technical advantages.