Cloud Frame Architecture for Heterogeneous System Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional business systems face challenges in managing heterogeneous mixes of hardware and software systems, leading to high total cost of ownership and complexity in lifecycle management.

Innovation Solution

The cloud frame architecture provides a framework for delivering hardware and software products and services, featuring a computing backbone, private communication network, and management services that orchestrate hardware components and applications, enabling efficient resource management and secure, scalable infrastructure.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional heterogeneous hardware and software systems are combined to provide comprehensive business solutions, then the solution capability and functionality are improved, but the management complexity and total cost of ownership increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesolution capabilityVSAvoidmanagement complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the heterogeneous hardware and software components into standardized service modules that are managed through a unified cloud framework. Each hardware component is abstracted into a standardized service interface, allowing diverse physical systems to be managed as uniform software services, thereby reducing management complexity while maintaining solution capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud frame architecture provides a universal management platform that handles multiple types of hardware and software systems through a single standardized interface. The system uses universal service abstractions and standardized protocols to manage diverse components, enabling one management system to handle many different service types without increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesolution capabilityVSAvoidtotal cost of ownership

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple management functions and service types into a unified cloud frame architecture. By combining hardware management, software deployment, resource allocation, and service monitoring into a single integrated platform, the system eliminates redundant management overhead and reduces overall operational costs while maintaining comprehensive solution capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The universal service abstraction layer enables a single management system to handle diverse hardware and software services, eliminating the need for multiple specialized management systems. This universality reduces licensing costs, training requirements, and operational expenses while providing comprehensive business solutions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9213581B2Method and system for a cloud frame architecture

Publication Date: 2015.12.15 SAP SE

AI summary

A cloud frame provides a framework comprising a monitoring and network services to support hardware nodes such as computing nodes and storage nodes. Cloud frames may be organized into a cluster of cloud frames. Hardware nodes in a cloud frame environment may conduct self-allocation of needed resources, which in turn may be provided by other hardware nodes in the cloud frame environment.