Implementing cloud service resource analytics functionality

a cloud service and analytics technology, applied in the field of cloud computing architectures and management methodologies, can solve the problems of increasing the need, creating a significant threat, and numerous challenges and limitations in implementing and managing, and achieve the effects of enhancing cloud services, effective and efficient, and enhancing security

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-09-18
HCL TECH LTD
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[0013]Embodiments of the present invention relate to methodologies and systems for enhancing cloud services through use of a cloud services brokerage (CSB) platform. The CSB platform enables a centralized resource within a cloud service consumer (e.g., personnel within an IT department of a business) to implement and manage all aspects of transactions associated with their cloud service providers and cloud services (e.g., payments, governance, data movement, customization, enrichment, etc) in an effective and efficient manner. In doing so, the CSB platform provides the centralized resource within the cloud service consumer to assume exclusive command and control for managing its cloud services. In the context of a CSB platform, a CSB is a third party company, or Enterprise IT Cloud Administration Organization, that adds value to cloud services on behalf of cloud service consumers. The goal of a CSB is to make the service more specific to a company, or to integrate or aggregate services, to enhance their security, to establish and manage contract based pricing, or to do anything that adds a significant layer of value (i.e. capabilities) to the original cloud services being offered.
[0014]A CSB platform configured in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention offer numerous benefits over traditional cloud management models such as the traditional cloud management model 100 discussed above in reference to FIG. 1. One benefit that the CSB platform provides is a unique, new approach to providing operations modeling and planning intelligence for enabling cloud service consumers to efficiently and effectively operate in current and future cloud computing environments such as to manage business demand and IT supply processes and relationships. For example, the CSB platform serves as a governance center driven by business, supported by enterprise IT and cloud providers. Another benefit that the CSB platform provides is that it serves as aggregation point for cloud resources, cost and SLA management to design, deploy, manage and govern cloud service solutions. Still another benefit that the CSB platform provides is that it provides a common financial model for IaaS, PaaS, and / or SaaS functionalities across various cloud configurations such as, for examples, public clouds, private clouds, and / or hybrid clouds. In a private cloud, the cloud infrastructure is self-owned such as being operated solely by an organization. However, it can be managed by the organization itself or a third-party provider and can exist on or off the organization's premise. In a public cloud, the cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public or a large industry group and is vendor-owned. A hybrid cloud is a combination of both private and public clouds, are organized so that a portion of the infrastructure is deployed in a private cloud and the rest is exposed on the public cloud.
[0015]Still another benefit that the CSB platform provides is providing choice and cost comparisons for determining whether to take a service to the public cloud or keep it internal based on risk / value profile. Still another benefit is that the CSB platform enables a rapidly changing IT service supply chain of cloud services through on-boarding of new cloud services and off-boarding retired cloud services in such a way as to minimize the disruption to end customers, while enabling them to leverage the benefits of new and better value cloud services.

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These actions are creating a significant threat to IT management whom are worried about considerations such as, for example, managing costs, chargeback, capacity and resources from the result of unrestrained / unplanned cloud expansion.
There are numerous challenges and limitations in regard to implementing and managing cloud services that arise from the traditional cloud management model 100 discussed above in reference to FIG. 1.
Accordingly, underlying problems that exists in cloud computing is that the need for intermediaries to aggregate, integrate or customize cloud services and that this need grows significantly as the number of cloud services and the rate of consumer adoption grows.
Without such intermediaries being able to effectively and efficiently manage cloud services, cloud service consumers must manage numerous transactions (e.g., payments, governance, data movement, customization and enrichment) associated with their cloud service providers and cloud services.
This can rapidly become a task that is difficult, time-consuming and expensive, especially when they are consuming numerous cloud services from independent providers.
Furthermore, traditional approaches for managing cloud services leads to the adverse situation of vendor “lock-in” in which cloud service consumers are undesirably tied to a particular vendor or set of vendors for all or a portion of their cloud services.

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[0070]Referring to FIGS. 2A and 2B, various aspects of a cloud management model 200 configured in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention are shown. Advantageously, the cloud management model 200 implements a CSB platform 202 through which business unit cloud service users 205 and CSB role cloud service users 208 (i.e., cloud service users) of a cloud service consumer 210 access cloud services via cloud service providers 215 (e.g., providing services via one or more outside networks with respect to the CSB platform 202). The CSB platform 202 enables cloud service users of the cloud service consumer 210 to enhance the manner in which it implements cloud consumption across public, private and hybrid clouds. For example, the CSB platform 202 enables cloud service users of the cloud service consumer 210 serving in an IT capacity (e.g., IT architects, system managers, information executives and the like) to limit the complexities and risks of imple...

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device. The instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method of enabling a user to determine cloud service resource requirements of a modeled cloud service solution, deploy an actual cloud service solution having cloud service resources defined by the cloud service resource requirements of the modeled cloud service solution, and, after deploying the actual cloud service solution, access information characterizing utilization of the cloud service resources of the actual cloud service solution with respect to available capacity thereof.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This non-provisional patent application claims priority from the co-pending U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 61 / 789,865 filed Mar. 15, 2013 entitled “SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMS FOR IMPLEMENTING CLOUD SERVICE BROKERAGE PLATFORM FUNCTIONALITIES”, having a common applicant herewith, and being incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.[0002]This non-provisional patent application claims priority from the co-pending U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 61 / 790,536 filed Mar. 15, 2013 entitled “CLOUD SERVICE BROKERAGE (CSB) PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE / PORTAL USE CASE IMPLEMENTATIONS”, having a common applicant herewith, and being incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.[0003]This non-provisional patent application claims priority from the co-pending U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 61 / 792,998 filed Mar. 15, 2013 entitled “CLOUD SERVICE BROKERAGE (CSB) PLATFORM PORTAL AND CSB PLATFORM ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04L12/911H04L12/26
CPCH04L43/04H04L47/78H04L41/145G06F8/60G06Q30/0631G06Q40/00G06Q30/0629H04L41/5054H04L47/70H04L67/51H04L41/50G06F3/04842G06F9/45558G06F9/45533H04L67/10H04L43/062G06F9/5077
Inventor GRANDHE, KISHORSANTHI, FENIL RAJ KUMARSAPURAM, RAGHUNATH
Owner HCL TECH LTD
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