Private Cloud Idle Resource Monetization Portal

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Solution Overview

Problem

Private cloud computing environments often experience underutilization of resources, leading to decreased return on investment and increased total cost of ownership, as they are not efficiently utilized during periods of varying computing loads.

Innovation Solution

A cloud computing environment, referred to as the 'left cloud,' allows public access to otherwise idle resources of private cloud providers, enabling them to offer time-limited cloud services through a publicly accessible portal, which aggregates and markets these resources, allowing organizations to utilize them efficiently and generate revenue.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If private cloud providers maintain hardware resources for peak demand, then service reliability is improved, but resource utilization deteriorates during low-demand periods

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice reliabilityVSAvoidresource utilization

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables private cloud hardware resources to serve dual purposes: dedicated private cloud services during high-demand periods and public cloud services during low-demand periods. This multi-functionality allows the same physical infrastructure to fulfill different service roles, ensuring reliability for private tenants while achieving high utilization through public cloud offerings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically allocates hardware resources between private and public cloud services based on real-time demand conditions. During peak private cloud demand, resources are dedicated to private tenants; during low-demand periods, resources are dynamically reassigned to public cloud workloads, optimizing both reliability and utilization through adaptive resource management.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If private cloud providers expand hardware capacity, then service capability is improved, but total cost of ownership deteriorates due to underutilization

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice capabilityVSAvoidtotal cost of ownership

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows private cloud providers to automatically monetize their own underutilized resources by offering them as public cloud services. The platform enables providers to self-manage resource allocation, service configuration, and revenue generation from their idle capacity, transforming wasted resources into revenue-generating assets without requiring external intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If private cloud providers offer public access to unused resources, then resource utilization is improved, but system complexity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveresource utilizationVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a platform intermediary that manages the complexity of dual-cloud operations. This intermediary layer handles resource allocation, service configuration, billing, and coordination between private and public cloud workloads, shielding providers from the operational complexity while enabling high resource utilization through public cloud offerings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Adaptability or versatility

If private cloud providers allocate resources for future growth, then adaptability is improved, but resource utilization deteriorates during current underutilization periods

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefuture growth capacityVSAvoidcurrent resource utilization

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system ensures continuous productive utilization of hardware resources by switching between private and public cloud workloads based on demand. Instead of leaving resources idle during underutilization periods, the platform maintains continuous useful action by allocating resources to public cloud services, ensuring that capacity invested for future growth generates value during both current and future periods.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS11050837B2Providing cloud services associated with unused hardware resources of private cloud providers

Publication Date: 2021.06.29 HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEV LP

AI summary

A technique includes providing, by a computer, a portal to provide a catalog describing features of a plurality of cloud services available and to be provided by otherwise unused hardware resources of a plurality of private cloud providers. The technique includes, by the computer, in response to input received through the portal selecting a given cloud service for a tenant, exposing the given cloud service to the tenant. Exposing the given cloud service to the user includes requesting a given cloud provider corresponding to the given cloud service to configure the given cloud provider to provide the given cloud service to the tenant.