Cloud Services Brokerage Proxy for Cross-Cloud Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud management models face challenges in efficiently managing and integrating heterogeneous cloud services across different platforms, leading to complexities in service interoperability and resource management.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a cloud services brokerage (CSB) platform that integrates heterogeneous cloud services by acting as a proxy, applying rules for update timing based on service instance consistency, and prioritizing resource usage through strong and weak consistency mechanisms, enabling cross-cloud service interoperability and efficient resource management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional cloud management model is used to manage heterogeneous cloud services, then service delivery is maintained, but service interoperability and resource management efficiency deteriorate due to platform heterogeneity and integration complexities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud services brokerage (CSB) platform as an intermediary layer between cloud service consumers and heterogeneous cloud service providers. The CSB platform includes a service broker that abstracts underlying platform differences and provides unified service access, thereby improving service interoperability without increasing management complexity for end users.
Solution Approach 2:
The CSB platform is designed with universal functionality to manage multiple types of cloud services across different cloud platforms through a single interface. The service broker can discover, describe, and manage diverse cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) from multiple providers using standardized protocols, enabling one system to handle many different service types.
2Reliability
If service instances are tracked across multiple CSB platforms to ensure consistency, then service reliability is improved, but power and bandwidth resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different consistency tracking mechanisms based on local conditions at each CSB platform. The service broker determines whether to implement strong consistency (frequent updates and synchronization) or weak consistency (less frequent updates) for each service instance based on factors such as service criticality, platform capacity, and current resource availability, thereby optimizing the balance between reliability and resource consumption.
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AI summary
This disclosure describes techniques for improving CSB platforms (or CSB applications) that manages cloud services for different clients and different environments. In one example, the CSB platforms may be interconnected and configured to act as a proxy for the cloud services. The interconnected CSB platforms may perform spontaneous updating of stored service instance addresses when a service instance is tracked to trigger a strong consistency in the interconnected CSB platforms. Alternatively, the interconnected CSB platforms may perform delayed updating of stored service instance addresses when a service instance is tracked to trigger a weak consistency in the interconnected CSB platforms. Regulation of a frequency and scope of updating may improve the use of power resources in the CSB platforms.