Infrastructure Correlation Engine for IT Ensemble Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IT solutions often lead to IT sprawl and increased costs due to the need for additional infrastructure, which can result in inefficient performance and a lack of alignment between business value chains and IT systems, lacking systematic approaches for design and management.
Innovation Solution
A method that uses a user interface to characterize business demand, compare it to reusable patterns, and generate an IT blueprint, incorporating Bayesian logic to determine recommended ensembles and remediation strategies, facilitating optimized IT infrastructure design and management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If additional infrastructure is added to improve IT performance, then execution time and processing capacity are improved, but device complexity and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple infrastructure components (compute, storage, network) into integrated ensembles that work together as unified systems. This merging reduces operational complexity while maintaining improved execution time, as the components are coordinated through a common management framework rather than operating as separate silos.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates versatile infrastructure ensembles that can serve multiple business functions and workloads. These ensembles are designed to be reusable across different applications and scenarios, reducing the need for specialized infrastructure for each function and thereby reducing overall device complexity while maintaining high productivity.
2Productivity
If additional infrastructure is added to improve IT performance, then processing capacity increases, but power requirements and cooling requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates infrastructure resources into shared ensembles that can dynamically allocate computing, storage, and networking capabilities. This consolidation improves processing capacity while reducing total power and cooling requirements compared to having separate dedicated infrastructure for each function, as resources are efficiently shared and utilized.
3Productivity
If additional infrastructure is added to improve IT performance, then computational power increases, but maintenance costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs universal infrastructure ensembles that can fulfill multiple computational roles and workloads. This multi-functionality reduces maintenance costs by standardizing components and procedures across the infrastructure, allowing for economies of scale in maintenance and reducing the need for specialized knowledge for each separate system.
4Adaptability or versatility
If infrastructure components are placed further apart to accommodate growth, then organizational scalability improves, but execution time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent addresses the spatial-time tradeoff by introducing virtualization and network abstraction layers that decouple physical distance from logical connectivity. Infrastructure ensembles can be geographically distributed to accommodate organizational growth while maintaining low execution times through virtualized resource allocation and intelligent network routing that makes distant components appear locally available.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes displaying to a user, via a display element, a user interface that allows a user to characterize business demand of an organization; receiving, from a user, via one or more input devices, input characterizing business demand; automatically comparing, utilizing one or more processors and one or more memory elements of a computer system, qualities of business demand to attributes of ensembles comprising implementations of reusable patterns, the qualities of business demand being based at least in part on the received input characterizing business demand; determining, based on the comparing step, a recommended ensemble; and displaying to a user, via a display element, the recommended ensemble and other possible ensembles as well as a visualization comparing the recommended ensemble and the other possible ensembles to business demand.