Elastic Virtual Hosting Transfer Without Service Interruption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online service providers face challenges in maintaining efficient hosting as they struggle with sporadic user growth, leading to potential service interruptions, data loss, and increased costs due to underutilized computing resources or excessive standby equipment.
Innovation Solution
Transitioning financial service hosting from a hardware-based environment to an elastic virtual computing environment, such as the cloud, allows for dynamic resource allocation and de-allocation, enabling scalable and cost-effective service delivery without service interruptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the service provider purchases excessive quantities of computing resources in preparation for growth, then the service provider can handle future user growth, but the service provider reduces its profits while paying for cooling costs, power consumption, maintenance fees, and initial purchase fees for all of the hardware and software computing resources that are in standby
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic resource allocation by transitioning from static hardware resources to elastic virtual computing resources. The system dynamically adjusts computing resource allocation based on real-time user traffic patterns, allowing the service provider to scale resources up during high-demand periods and down during low-demand periods, thereby eliminating standby costs while maintaining growth capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of resource provisioning from fixed hardware capacity to variable virtual resource instances. By using virtualization technology, the system can provision and de-provision computing resources on-demand, transforming the static hardware infrastructure into a dynamic resource pool that adapts to actual usage patterns.
2Loss of energy
If the service provider simply maintains enough resources to service the current amount of user traffic, then the service provider avoids excessive costs, but the quality of the online service may be compromised by insufficient bandwidth, interruptions in service, improper management or loss of user data
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts resource allocation based on real-time traffic conditions, ensuring sufficient bandwidth and computing power are available during peak periods while maintaining cost efficiency during normal periods. The elastic virtual infrastructure can rapidly scale up to handle sudden traffic spikes, preventing service interruptions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs virtualization to create virtual copies of computing resources that can be instantiated on-demand. Instead of relying on physical hardware limitations, the system creates virtual instances of servers, storage, and networking components that can be deployed quickly to handle increased demand, ensuring service continuity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If established online services move to cloud computing environments, then the service provider achieves expandable resource platform and faster scalability, but the service provider faces risks of service interruption during transfer, data security concerns, and unknown debugging periods
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the migration process into distinct phases: assessment, pilot migration, parallel operation, and full cutover. This segmented approach allows the service provider to migrate non-critical workloads first, establish processes and protocols, and then progressively migrate critical services, minimizing disruption to overall service continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by creating virtual copies of services in the cloud environment before fully migrating them. This allows for testing, validation, and debugging of the virtualized services in advance, ensuring they are ready for production traffic and reducing the risk of service interruption during the actual migration.
4Reliability
If the service provider uses traditional data centers for hosting, then the service provider has established infrastructure and lower technical risk, but the service provider suffers from rigid resource allocation and inability to rapidly scale
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal virtualized infrastructure that can serve multiple functions simultaneously. The same virtualized hardware platform can host different services, applications, and workloads, allowing the infrastructure to adapt to various service requirements without requiring dedicated physical hardware for each function, thereby achieving both stability and scalability.
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AI summary
A method and system transfers the hosting of online services to a virtual asset computing environment from a hardware asset computing environment, according to one embodiment. The method and system transfers a secondary copy of application data to a storage device, and delivers the storage device to a second computing system from the first computing system using a parcel courier, according to one embodiment. The method and system receives, with the second computing system, the secondary copy of the application data from the storage device, and configures virtual assets to execute a second instance of the online services application to enable the second computing system to provide the online services to the multiple users, according to one embodiment. The method and system configures the second computing system as a primary service provider, according to one embodiment.