Cloud Management System for Optimizing Resource Utilization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies lack cost-effective solutions for optimizing cloud computing platforms, recycling unused digital assets, and reducing carbon emissions associated with oversized and duplicated cloud infrastructures.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for managing clouds that includes receiving requests from user devices, analyzing information associated with cloud platforms, determining cloud management actions, generating management information, and transmitting it to perform actions such as cloud optimization, merging, and digital recycling, which reduces carbon emissions and optimizes resource usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cloud infrastructure is oversized to ensure system availability and disaster recovery, then reliability is improved, but cloud costs increase and carbon emissions increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple cloud environments into a single unified cloud platform, consolidating duplicated infrastructure. This reduces the total number of servers and data centers required, thereby decreasing carbon emissions while maintaining reliability through the unified system's disaster recovery capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent recovers and repurposes unused digital assets from discarded cloud environments. By reusing these assets in a consolidated cloud platform, the system maintains reliability without requiring excessive spare infrastructure, thus reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.
2Reliability
If multiple cloud providers are used for disaster recovery, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases and cloud costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple cloud environments from different providers into a single unified cloud platform, reducing the number of separate systems to manage. This simplifies cloud infrastructure while maintaining disaster recovery capabilities through the unified platform's integrated architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified cloud platform provides universal disaster recovery capabilities that can handle multiple scenarios within a single system. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for separate specialized systems, reducing complexity while maintaining comprehensive reliability.
3Manufacturing precision
If Infrastructure as Code scripts are manually built for cloud provisioning, then manufacturing precision is improved, but productivity decreases and development time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates Infrastructure as Code scripts through self-service automation, eliminating the need for manual script building. This maintains provisioning accuracy through automated validation while dramatically increasing development speed and productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary automated generation of IaC scripts based on template configurations, preparing the infrastructure code in advance before deployment. This ensures accuracy through pre-validation while accelerating the overall provisioning process.
4Ease of operation
If digital assets are not recycled, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of substance increases and carbon emissions increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically identifies and recycles unused digital assets through self-service automation, maintaining operational simplicity for users while preventing asset waste. The automated process handles the complexity of asset tracking and recycling without increasing user burden.
Solution Approach 2:
The system recovers unused digital assets that would otherwise be discarded, repurposing them within the unified cloud platform. This reduces substance loss and carbon emissions while maintaining ease of operation through automated asset management.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method for facilitating managing clouds for a user. Further, the method includes receiving requests from user devices associated with users. Further, the method includes receiving information from the devices based on the requests. Further, the information is associated with clouds of the users. Further, the clouds are provided by cloud platforms. Further, the method includes analyzing the information. Further, the method includes determining cloud management actions for managing the clouds based on the analyzing of the information. Further, the method includes generating management information based on the determining of the cloud management actions. Further, the management information facilitates a performing of the cloud management actions. Further, the method includes transmitting the management information.