Cloud Services Brokerage Platform for Virtual Data Center Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional cloud management models face challenges such as disparate billing, payment, and service management across different cloud service providers, leading to inefficiencies and vendor lock-in, making it difficult for enterprises to effectively manage and integrate cloud services.
Innovation Solution
A Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) platform that acts as a centralized resource, enabling cloud service consumers to aggregate, customize, and manage cloud services through a unified portal, providing operations modeling, cost management, and SLA management across multiple cloud configurations, including public, private, and hybrid clouds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises use multiple cloud service providers, then service variety and capability are improved, but management complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud service brokerage platform as an intermediary layer between enterprises and multiple cloud service providers. This broker abstracts and unifies the management of diverse cloud services through standardized interfaces, resource pooling, and centralized control mechanisms, thereby maintaining service variety while reducing management complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The brokerage platform implements universal resource pools that can accommodate multiple cloud service providers and various service types through common management interfaces. The system provides multi-functional capabilities including resource allocation, billing management, and service orchestration that work across different cloud providers, thereby simplifying enterprise management of heterogeneous cloud environments
2Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises use multiple cloud service providers, then service capability is improved, but billing and payment management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple billing and payment systems from different cloud service providers into a unified billing platform. The broker consolidates resource usage data, cost information, and payment processing from various providers into a single integrated system, thereby simplifying billing management while maintaining access to diverse cloud services
Solution Approach 2:
The brokerage platform acts as an intermediary billing agent between enterprises and multiple cloud providers. It standardizes payment interfaces, aggregates costs from different providers, and manages billing operations through a unified system, thereby reducing the complexity of handling multiple billing relationships
3Productivity
If cloud services are managed through traditional models, then service delivery is achieved, but vendor lock-in and integration efficiency are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the traditional monolithic cloud service delivery model into modular components managed by the brokerage platform. By dividing resource management, service orchestration, and provider interactions into separate functional modules with standardized interfaces, the system enables flexible service delivery while preventing vendor lock-in through multi-provider support
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AI summary
A cloud services brokerage platform system includes a virtual data center (VDC) and an architecture management interface. The virtual data center (VDC) includes a plurality of resource groups. Each one of the resource groups includes one or more VDC resources. Each one of the VDC resources is associated with a respective set of resource group specification parameters. The architecture management interface enables an architectural layout of the one or more VDC resources to be displayed. The architectural layout includes a visual depiction of the one or more VDC resources of each one of the resource groups. An arrangement of the visual depiction is dependent upon the respective set of resource group specification parameters.