REMOTE PROVISIONING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• US 20080082667A1
• Filed: 12/20/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Cheng, Lili, MacLaurin, Matthew B., Meijer, Henricus Johannes Maria, Ozzie, Raymond E., Flake, Gary W., Hunt, Galen C., Larus, James R., Brumme, Christopher W., Blinn, Arnold N., Gounares, Alexander G., Glasser, Daniel S., Snyder, Ira L., Mital, Amit, Bergstraesser, Thomas F., Mishra, Debi P., Dani, Nishant V., Thekkath, Chandramohan A., Gates, William H.
• Application Number:
  US11/613,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082667A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

Remote provisioning of an IT network and/or associated services is provided. Hardware, software, service and/or expertise can be moved from on-premise to a remote location (e.g., central, distributed . . . ). Accordingly, at least a large degree computation can be moved to the center to exploit economies of scale, among other things. In such an architecture, computational resources (e.g., data storage, computation power, cache . . . ) can be pooled, and entities can subscribe to a particular level of resources related to a private entity IT network.

Claims

1. An information technology (IT) system, comprising:

at least one off-premise apportioned computer resource; and

a service component that manages the at least one resource to supplement at least one on-premise IT network.

2. The system of claim 1, the service component allocates the at least one resource in accordance with an entity subscription that prescribes a level of IT network service and/or performance.

3. The system of claim 2, the service component allocates at least one of processing power, cache, electronic storage and communication bandwidth based on the subscription.

4. The system of claim 1, the service component maintains a remote mirror of a local data store.

5. The system of claim 1, the service component provides one or more software applications.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a computation component distributes processing between on-premise and off-premise resources.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising a component that capability and availability of on-premise and off-premise resources to facilitate optimal distribution.

8. The system of claim 7, the computation component dynamically adjusts process distribution as a function of load.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising an interface component that presents a unified view of on-premise and off-premise services in a manner that obfuscates service location.

10. The system of claim 1, the service component utilizes on-premise resources to execute third party transactions.

11. A method of provisioning information technology (IT) services, comprising the following computer-implemented acts:

monitoring local IT network resources; and

provisioning third-party computer resources to supplement the local IT network.

12. The method of claim 11, comprising provisioning at least one of processing power, cache, electronic storage and communication bandwidth.

13. The method of claim 11, comprising provisioning one or more software applications.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising provisioning third-party computer resources in accordance with a subscription specifying a level of network service and/or capability to be maintained.

15. The method of claim 14, charging a fee as a function of use and/or level of service.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising apportioning the third-party computer resources amongst a plurality of subscribers.

17. The method of claim, 11, further comprising maintaining a remote mirror of a local data store.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising automatically routing data requests to the remote mirror upon failure of the local data store.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising distributing processing across local and third party resources as a function of load and availability.

20. A system for affording enterprise IT services, comprising:

means for monitoring local IT network resources; and

means for dynamically provisioning third-party computer resources to maintain a subscribed level of network service and/or performance.