Cloud Governance Module for Multi-Provider Application Hand-offs
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Solution Overview
Problem
In cloud computing environments, organizations face challenges in ensuring compliance with governance policies and security when moving applications or infrastructure between different cloud vendors, particularly when dealing with multiple vendors, as conventional systems lack automated tools for managing these transitions effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize a cloud governance module to identify applications across multiple cloud service providers, determine governance policies, and hand off the execution of applications from one cloud provider to another only if the destination provider meets the required policies, ensuring seamless and secure transitions while maintaining application state.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If automated hand-off mechanisms are implemented between multiple cloud vendors, then compliance with governance policies and security is improved, but device complexity and system overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud governance module as an intermediary component that mediates between multiple cloud vendors and the organization's governance requirements. This module centralizes policy management, vendor evaluation, and hand-off coordination, thereby improving compliance reliability while containing system complexity through centralized control rather than distributed complexity across multiple vendors.
2Productivity
If manual management of cloud assets and governance policies is used, then system complexity is reduced, but productivity and operational efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud governance module enables self-service capabilities by automatically evaluating cloud vendors against governance policies, performing compliance checks, and facilitating hand-offs without requiring manual intervention for each operation. The system autonomously manages asset tracking, policy enforcement, and vendor selection, thereby improving operational efficiency while the modular design keeps system complexity manageable through automation of routine tasks.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cloud infrastructure is moved between different physical and logical locations, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but ensuring compliance to policies and security becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the cloud governance module continuously monitors cloud infrastructure movements and evaluates compliance status at each hand-off point. The system provides real-time feedback on policy adherence and security compliance, enabling the organization to track and measure compliance status throughout the migration process, thereby making compliance monitoring feasible even as adaptability increases.
4Productivity
If multiple cloud vendors are used to optimize resource utilization and cost efficiency, then productivity is improved, but governance policy compliance and security management become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud governance module is designed as a universal platform that can evaluate and manage multiple cloud vendors against a single set of governance policies. It performs multiple functions including vendor assessment, compliance verification, asset tracking, and hand-off coordination across different cloud providers, thereby enabling productive use of multiple vendors while managing governance complexity through a unified multi-functional system.
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AI summary
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium for handling hand-offs in a cloud computing environment is provided. The method includes identifying, at a cloud governance module of a server device, a plurality of applications executing on a plurality of servers belonging to a plurality of cloud computing service providers. The method includes determining, based upon information in a policy module, to hand-off an execution of at least one identified application executing on a first cloud computing service provider platform to a second cloud computing service provider, determining whether the second cloud computing service provider satisfies one or more governance policies associated with the at least one identified application, and handing-off the execution of the at least one identified application to a second cloud computing provider platform based upon the second cloud computing provider being compliant with the one or more governance policies associated with the at least one identified application.