Service-Oriented Orchestration for Multi-Vendor Cloud Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud computing presents challenges for enterprise management due to limited visibility and control over resource usage, complexity in managing multiple cloud resources, and difficulties in integrating applications across different cloud vendors, leading to sub-optimal configurations and security issues.
Innovation Solution
A service-oriented orchestration system that creates a vendor and platform-agnostic cloud computing framework, providing tools for provisioning, managing, and automating cloud services across multiple platforms, enabling standardized protocols and user access control through a single web-based portal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud computing resources are dynamically requisitioned from a pool of shared computing resources, then resource flexibility and scalability are improved, but visibility and control over resource usage deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud resource management system that acts as an intermediary layer between the cloud provider's shared resource pool and the enterprise consumers. This intermediary provides standardized interfaces and abstraction layers that maintain visibility and control while enabling dynamic resource requisitioning. The system translates enterprise resource requests into cloud provider-specific configurations, allowing flexible resource allocation without losing oversight.
2Productivity
If multiple cloud computing resources from different vendors are used to optimize application performance, then application efficiency is improved, but system complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal cloud resource management platform that can interface with multiple cloud vendors through standardized protocols. This multi-functional system handles resource provisioning, monitoring, and management across different cloud providers uniformly, allowing enterprises to optimize application performance across multiple vendors without managing the underlying complexity of each individual cloud platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The management system serves as an intermediary that abstracts the heterogeneity of different cloud vendors' interfaces and protocols. It provides a unified control plane that translates between various cloud providers' specific mechanisms and a standardized enterprise interface, reducing integration complexity while enabling multi-vendor deployment optimization.
3Ease of manufacture
If cloud components are standardized according to commodity business models, then ease of provisioning is improved, but configurability and customization capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic configuration system that allows cloud components to be standardized for easy provisioning while maintaining the ability to customize specifications. The system enables runtime adjustment of resource configurations, allowing enterprises to start with standardized templates and progressively customize components as needed, balancing ease of provisioning with configurability.
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AI summary
Novel methods and systems are provided for integrating multi-vendor cloud computing operations and architectures by using service-oriented orchestration to create a vendor and platform agnostic cloud computing framework. This approach aggregates core cloud computing functions including service provisioning, automating work flows, and data and usage monitoring across integrated services, thereby improving a data centers ability to execute operations quickly, under standardized protocols and with consistent quality of service.