Data center edition system and method

• US 20080276234A1
• Filed: 04/09/2008
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sugarcrm Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sugarcrm Incorporated
• Inventors: Roberts, John, Oram, Clinton, Taylor, Jacob, Tretikov, Lila Alexei, Parsons, Joseph L., Baroudi, Sadek
• Application Number:
  US12/100,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20080276234A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/177
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment

Abstract

A data center edition system and method are provided.

Claims

1. A software data center edition system, comprising:

a computer installation;

one or more nodes in the computer installation;

each node having a plurality of computing devices wherein each computing device operates on a software platform and executes a deployment of a software application on the computing device so that the deployments of the software application are distributed across the data center; and

the computer installation having a data center edition application that administers the installations of the software application distributed across the computer installation and provide a unified application management console.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each deployment further comprises a virtual host folder with a set of code for the deployment, a link for a folder containing an instance of the deployment, a database schema instance or a database instance.

3. The system of claim 2 further comprising a template wherein each deployment is an instance associated with the template.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the template further comprises an unmodified release or patch version of the software application or a customized release of the software application.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a server computer.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the software application further comprises a customer relationship management software application.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the customer relationship management software application further comprises a SugarCRM customer relationship management software application.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the software platform further comprises a Linux platform, a Windows platform, a database platform or a web server platform.

9. The system of claim 3, wherein the data center edition application further comprises a template management application that manages the templates used for an instance of the application.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the template management application further comprises a sandbox upgrade that creates a complete replica of a current installation to perform the upgrade.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the template management application further comprises a quick upgrade that creates a complete replica of a current installation to perform the upgrade.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the data center edition application further comprises an instance management application that manages the instances of the application in the data center.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the instance management application further comprises a zero-downtime upgrade unit that creates a shadow database and an upgraded instance folder to implement the upgrade and reroutes a URL to the upgraded instance folder when the upgrade is complete.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein each node has a store and the data center edition application caches files in the store that do not exist.

15. A method for distributed software application management in a computer installation, the method comprising:

providing one or more nodes in the computer installation and each node having a plurality of computing devices wherein each computing device operates on a software platform;

executing a deployment of a software application on the computing device so that the deployments of the software application are distributed across the computer installation;

administering, using a data center edition application, the installations of the software application distributed across the computer installation by providing a unified application management console.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein each deployment further comprises a virtual host folder with a set of code for the deployment, a link for a folder containing an instance of the deployment, a database schema instance or a database instance.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising a template wherein each deployment is an instance associated with the template.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the template further comprises an unmodified release or patch version of the software application or a customized release of the software application.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the software application further comprises a customer relationship management software application.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the customer relationship management software application further comprises a SugarCRM customer relationship management software application.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the software platform further comprises a Linux platform, a Windows platform, a database platform or a web server platform.

22. The method of claim 17 further comprising managing the templates used for an instance of the application.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein managing the templates further comprises implementing a sandbox upgrade that creates a complete replica of a current installation to perform the upgrade.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein managing the templates further comprises implementing a quick upgrade that creates a complete replica of a current installation to perform the upgrade.

25. The method of claim 15 further comprising managing the instances of the application in the data center.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein managing the instances further comprises performing a zero-downtime upgrade that further comprises creating a shadow database and an upgraded instance folder to implement the upgrade and rerouting a URL to the upgraded instance folder when the upgrade is complete.

27. The method of claim 15 further comprising caching, in each node, files that do not exist.