In the era of data and service overflow, technology and policy measures for long-distance deployment of DR data centers: Focusing on Jeju Special Self-Governing Province

Abstract

Recently, in late 2022, Disaster Recovery Data Center is recognized as important due to the disruption issue of Kakao, the Korea' s #1 SNS service provider caused by a fire at their separated operating data center. In this response; the needs of establishing the Disaster Reovery Data Center, this paper is examining the brief current status of domestic and foreign data centers and D.R. data centers and analyzing the related problems. Moreover, according to three requirements (environment, communication and power infrastructure) and two criteria (site level, socio-economic/manpower/government) to find the r ight location for the data center, Jeju's strengths and weaknesses were examined, and considered with the technical and policy measures for Jeju Island to encourage for the attraction of private sector's data centers/DR data centers.