Data Center Scheduler

• US 20090327493A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hamilton, James R., Gauthier, David, Warncke, Heather E., Stewart, Tina
• Granted Patent: US 7,860,973 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0273 using web services for network management, e.g. simple object access protocol [SOAP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5006 Creating or negotiating SLA contracts, guarantees or penalties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning

Abstract

An exemplary data stream includes value information for use by consumers of global computing resources in making requests for global computing resources. An exemplary method includes receiving information about data center resources from one or more data centers, based at least in part on the information estimating value information for consumption of computing resources of the one or more data centers and streaming the value information via a network. An exemplary medium or media includes instructions to instruct a computing device to receive, from a data stream, value information for computing resources of one or more data centers, to format the value information for display and to issue requests for consumption of at least some of the computing resources. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A data stream, output by a computing device via the Internet, the data stream comprising:

information about global computing resources accessible via the Internet wherein the information comprises value information for use by consumers of global computing resources in making requests for global computing resources.

2. The data stream of claim 1 wherein the consumers comprise automatically or manually operated computing devices of managers of web-based services or web-based applications accessible via the Internet.

3. The data stream of claim 1 wherein the computing device comprises an algorithm to estimate value information based at least in part on data acquired from the global computing resources.

4. The data stream of claim 1 wherein the information comprises memory information and CPU information about the global computing resources.

5. The data stream of claim 1 wherein the information comprises geographic information about the global computing resources.

6. The data stream of claim 1 wherein the information comprises network bandwidth information about the global computing resources.

7. A method, implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:

receiving information about data center resources from one or more data centers;

estimating value information for consumption of computing resources of the one or more data centers; and

streaming the value information via a network.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the estimating comprises estimating relative pricing for consumption of the computing resources.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising receiving subscriptions from potential consumers of the computing resources.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein the streaming streams the value information to potential consumers of the computing resources.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the potential consumers comprise subscribers to a data streaming service that performs the streaming.

12. The method of claim 7 wherein the computing resources comprise memory and CPU resources.

13. The method of claim 7 wherein the computing resources comprise bandwidth resources.

14. One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions to perform the method of claim 7.

15. One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions to instruct a computing device to receive, from a data stream, value information for computing resources of one or more data centers, to format the value information for display and to issue requests for consumption of at least some of the computing resources.

16. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 15 wherein the instructions to receive comprise instructions to login to a data streaming service that provides the data stream.

17. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 16 wherein the data streaming service provides the data stream via the Internet.

18. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 15 further comprising instructions to receive confirmations for issued requests.

19. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 15 further comprising instructions to access an information reservoir that comprises historical price information.

20. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 15 wherein the requests for consumption of the computing resources comprise resources for consumption by a web-based service or web-based application.