Centralized Interface Registry for Data Center Configuration Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data centers lack the ability to efficiently manage configurations, requiring customers to install multiple products and learn various user interfaces, leading to an inefficient and frustrating experience when adding new capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A centralized interface and registry system that allows customers to seamlessly select, purchase, and deploy data center products and services, transforming them into customer-specific secure applications, facilitating configuration and management through a unified user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple products are installed in product-specific manners to add new capabilities, then the data center can achieve functional expansion, but the device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to multiple user interfaces and installation procedures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal service interface that provides a common user interface for accessing and managing multiple data center products and services. This universal interface consolidates what would otherwise require multiple product-specific interfaces into a single unified access point, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining the ability to access diverse functional capabilities through standardized interactions
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple products are installed in product-specific manners to add new capabilities, then the data center can achieve functional expansion, but the ease of operation worsens due to learning multiple user interfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The universal service interface provides consistent interaction patterns across all data center products and services, eliminating the need for users to learn multiple different interfaces. The standardized service interface presents a uniform operational experience regardless of which underlying product or service is being accessed, significantly improving ease of operation while supporting functional expansion
3Ease of operation
If a centralized interface and registry system is implemented to simplify configuration management, then the ease of operation and productivity improve, but the device complexity increases due to the need for registry maintenance and central interface management
Solution Approach 1:
The service registry acts as an intermediary component that maintains centralized information about available services and their configurations. This registry mediates between the user interface and the underlying product-specific implementations, allowing the centralized interface to manage complexity by querying the registry for service information and deployment instructions, thereby improving ease of operation while containing complexity in a dedicated component
Data Source
AI summary
Information processing techniques for managing data center configurations. In one example, a method comprises the following steps. A registry is maintained corresponding to at least one of products and services offered by a provider entity for use in providing a data center for a customer entity. A central interface is provided for presenting information maintained in the registry and for presenting one or more features operative to allow the customer entity to create and/or change a configuration of the data center. The central interface comprises one or more features for obtaining at least one of the data center products and services, one or more features for configuring the obtained one of the data center products and services, and one or more features for managing the configured one of the data center products and services. Accordingly, the customer obtains a customized data center configuration through the central interface and the registry.