Application of Distributed Data Center in Logistics as Cloud Collaboration for handling Disaster Relief

The rapid advancements in the field of information technology particularly in cloud computing have enabled people to use various sophisticated and powerful techniques such as cloud collaboration, use of logistics information system, distributed management task force, mobile applications, knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence etc. These important techniques are applied in various diversified fields to handle lot of real life problems and issues such as disaster management, emergency relief, distribution management etc. This paper specifies a case study which aims to apply distributed data center in logistics as cloud collaboration for handling disaster relief. It also analyzes the role of logistics information system (LIS) in natural disaster activities for emergency relief and response. LIS supports distribution, tracking, tracing of goods and funds in all phases of disaster relief operations cycle in logistics. This study is based on Nepal earthquake, 2015, which proposes distributed data center and provides connectivity among the relief data centers/ organizations for sharing information at different locations by using LIS. The study depicts how relief data centers communicate to different relief organizations for various logistics needs by applying the proposed distributed data center. This particular LIS can be used to connect the data center at different locations andante disseminate information at reduce cost and time with immediate response in cloud environment.