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Comparative Analysis on Cloud and On-Premises Environments for High-Resolution Agricultural Climate Data Processing

고해상도 농업 기후 자료 처리를 위한 클라우드와 온프레미스 비교 분석

  • Park, Joo Hyeon (R&D Center, EPINET Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Ahn, Mun Il (R&D Center, EPINET Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Kang, Wee Soo (National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration) ;
  • Shim, Kyo-Moon (National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration) ;
  • Park, Eun Woo (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2019.10.24
  • Accepted : 2019.12.19
  • Published : 2019.12.30

Abstract

The usefulness of processing and analysis systems of GIS-based agricultural climate data is affected by the reliability and availability of computing infrastructures such as cloud, on-premises, and hybrid. Cloud technology has grown in popularity. However, various reference cases accumulated over the years of operational experiences point out important features that make on-premises technology compatible with cloud technology. Both cloud and on-premises technologies have their advantages and disadvantages in terms of operational time and cost, reliability, and security depending on cases of applications. In this study, we have described characteristics of four general computing platforms including cloud, on-premises with hardware-level virtualization, on-premises with operating system-level virtualization and hybrid environments, and compared them in terms of advantages and disadvantages when a huge amount of GIS-based agricultural climate data were stored and processed to provide public services of agro-meteorological and climate information at high spatial and temporal resolutions. It was found that migrating high-resolution agricultural climate data to public cloud would not be reasonable due to high cost for storing a large amount data that may be of no use in the future. Therefore, we recommended hybrid systems that the on-premises and the cloud environments are combined for data storage and backup systems that incur a major cost, and data analysis, processing and presentation that need operational flexibility, respectively.

GIS 기반의 농업 기후 자료의 처리 및 분석 체계의 유용성은 클라우드, 온프레미스, 하이브리드 구조와 같은 컴퓨팅 인프라의 신뢰성, 가용성에 영향을 받는다. 현재는 정보 기술 산업에서 클라우드 컴퓨팅의 시대라고 할 수 있을 만큼 클라우드와 관련된 기술이 확산되어 있으나, 장기간의 운영 경험으로 누적된 다양한 참조 사례를 볼 때 온프레미스 기술이 클라우드 기술 보다 유리한 경우도 있다. 또한 클라우드 환경의 경우 초기 비용이 온프레미스와 비교하여 저렴하지만 사용 방법에 따라 매우 높은 비용이 부과될 가능성이 있다. 따라서 각 시스템의 특성에 맞는 적절한 구성법이 고려될 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 농업 기후 자료 처리 및 분석 체계에 이용가능한 일반적인 컴퓨팅 플랫폼 4개를 소개하고 대량의 자료 처리 및 저장의 특성을 갖는 응용 시스템을 적용하여 각 플랫폼의 장단점을 비교 분석하였다. 현재로서는 대량의 농업 기상 및 기후 데이터를 필요로 하는 시스템은 비용상의 이유로 퍼블릭 클라우드로의 이주가 불가능함을 확인하였다. 향후 참조될 가능성이 높지 않은 대용량 자료를 클라우드 상에 유지해야 하는 점이 주요 원인이다. 따라서 가장 높은 비용의 저장 및 백업 부분을 클라우드 대신 온프레미스에서 운용하고, 자료의 분석 및 처리 그리고 표출 부분과 같이 유연성이 요구되는 부분은 클라우드에서 운용하는 것이 합리적이다.

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