Cloud Bursting Gateway for Hybrid Workload Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Hybrid cloud environments, combining on-premises and public cloud technologies, are complex to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot, leading to administrative difficulties and reduced visibility for network operators in managing workloads and responding to network issues.
Innovation Solution
A system providing dynamic, intelligent, and efficient cloud bursting capabilities with cloud-agnostic burst templates that enable flexible and automated deployment and release of resources across different cloud environments, optimizing cloud costs and computing performance through elastic resource allocation and robust policy enforcement, along with user interface tools for simplified management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud bursting is implemented to handle overflow workload demands, then resource capacity and scalability are improved, but system complexity and administrative difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud bursting gateway as an intermediary component that sits between the on-premises network and multiple cloud environments. This gateway handles the complexity of cloud integration, authentication, and workload routing centrally, shielding administrators from the underlying complexity while enabling scalable resource access across multiple cloud providers
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway is designed as a universal platform that can connect to multiple different cloud environments (public, private, hybrid) through standardized interfaces. It provides multi-functional capabilities including workload orchestration, resource provisioning, monitoring, and management across diverse cloud infrastructures, reducing the need for separate integration solutions for each cloud
2Productivity
If hybrid cloud environments are integrated to provide overflow capacity, then workload handling capability is improved, but visibility and control for network operators deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the management of on-premises and cloud resources into a single unified gateway interface. This consolidation provides network operators with centralized visibility and control over all workload environments, allowing them to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot hybrid cloud infrastructures from one location rather than dealing with disparate systems
3Productivity
If cloud resources are provisioned dynamically to handle demand fluctuations, then resource allocation efficiency is improved, but integration and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway implements dynamic resource provisioning capabilities that automatically allocate and de-allocate cloud resources based on real-time workload demands. It monitors resource utilization metrics and dynamically scales computing, storage, and networking resources across cloud environments, enabling efficient resource allocation while maintaining centralized control through the gateway interface
Data Source
AI summary
In some examples, a multi-cloud bursting service generates cloud agnostic burst templates for bursting workload environments on different clouds, each of the cloud agnostic burst templates defining a stack for a workload environment and tasks for provisioning cloud resources and deploying, on the cloud resources, the workload environment associated with the stack, the stack including applications, libraries, services, data, and/or an operating system. The multi-cloud bursting service can receive, from a local compute environment, a request to burst the workload environment onto a selected cloud and, based on a cloud agnostic burst template identified for the request, provision the cloud resources from the selected cloud and deploy the workload environment on the cloud resources from the selected cloud.