Cloud Migration Platform for Enterprise Asset Discovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Migrating enterprise networks from on-premise platforms to cloud-based platforms is a complex, manual, and resource-intensive process, requiring significant technical effort and involving various considerations such as cloud provider selection and infrastructure optimization.
Innovation Solution
A cloud migration platform that discovers enterprise assets, assesses them, provides proposed cloud-based solutions, executes simulations for optimization, and generates a migration plan, including infrastructure agents and application workload agents to collect data, simulate network performance, and generate a bill of materials for cloud platform selection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual migration process is used, then flexibility in decision-making is improved, but productivity and time consumption deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system comprising discovery agents, assessment engines, and migration planning tools that bridge manual decision-making and automated execution. These intermediaries collect infrastructure data, assess cloud readiness, and generate migration plans that preserve human oversight while automating routine tasks, thereby maintaining flexibility while improving productivity.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive asset discovery is performed, then migration plan accuracy is improved, but use of technical resources deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the asset discovery and assessment process into multiple specialized agents and engines that operate independently. Discovery agents collect infrastructure data, assessment engines evaluate cloud readiness, and migration planners generate plans. This segmentation allows comprehensive assessment while distributing technical resource consumption across modular components, improving efficiency and reducing overall resource overhead.
3Reliability
If detailed simulation and optimization are executed, then migration plan quality is improved, but time consumption and resource expenditure deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary assessments and simulations during the planning phase to identify potential migration issues before actual migration begins. Assessment engines evaluate cloud readiness and generate preliminary migration plans with simulated outcomes. This preliminary action allows optimization of the migration approach in advance, ensuring high-quality migration plans while reducing time and resources needed during actual migration execution.
Data Source
AI summary
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving, by the cloud migration platform, user input indicating a type of case for cloud migration planning, the type including one of an abstract case and a detailed case, in response to receiving the type of case, selectively initiating, by the cloud migration platform, a discovery process for generating discovery data representative of infrastructure assets and application assets of the enterprise network, processing the discovery data through a sub-set of engines of a set of engines of the cloud migration platform, the sub-set of engines providing output including cloud platform selection data, application disposition data, target architecture data, bill of materials (BOM) data, and application remediation data, and generating, by a cloud migration planning engine of the cloud migration platform and based on the output, a cloud migration plan including an application sequence plan for migrating applications to one or more cloud platforms.