SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MIGRATION AND ADOPTION OF AN ALTERNATIVE COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE

• US 20110296025A1
• Filed: 03/30/2011
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Exoprise Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Exoprise Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Lieblich, Jason, Blackburn, Clinton, Shimer, Carl
• Application Number:
  US13/075,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20110296025A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to, among other things, a method that selecting, by a processor, user accounts on a first computing infrastructure to migrate to a second computing infrastructure; provisioning, by the processor, a parallel user account on the second computing infrastructure for each of the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure; and migrating, by the processor, information from the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure to the parallel user accounts.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

selecting, by a processor, user accounts on a first computing infrastructure to migrate to a second computing infrastructure;

provisioning, by the processor, a parallel user account on the second computing infrastructure for each of the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure; and

migrating, by the processor, information from the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure to the parallel user accounts.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second computing infrastructure comprises a cloud-based computing infrastructure.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the user accounts further comprises:

selecting the user accounts based on use metrics.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the user accounts further comprises:

selecting the user accounts based on interactions between users associated with the user accounts.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein migrating the information from the user accounts further comprises:

migrating at least one of documents or electronic communications from the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure to the parallel user accounts.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the processor, an invitation to a user associated with a selected user account to participate in migration; and

receiving, by the processor, a response to the invitation indicating consent by the user.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

transmitting, by the processor, a training program for the second computing infrastructure to the user; and

receiving, by the processor, information about progress of the user through the training program.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deprovisioning, by the processor, the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

reverse migrating, by the processor, at least a portion of the information from the parallel user accounts to the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

repurposing, by the processor, a resource of the first computing infrastructure according to a capacity of the resource.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

decommissioning, by the processor, a resource of the first computing infrastructure according to a capacity of the resource.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

measuring, by the processor, a delivery time for an electronic communication transmitted between the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure to determine an estimate of a standard delivery time.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

estimating, by the processor, a period of time to migrate the information from a user account on the first computing infrastructure to the parallel user account.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

estimating, by the processor, a period of time to reverse migrate the information from a parallel user account to a user account on the first computing infrastructure.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

testing, by the processor, the parallel user accounts.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein testing the parallel user accounts further comprises:

transmitting an electronic communication to a parallel user account;

accessing the parallel user account; and

verifying the electronic communication arrived at the parallel user account.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein testing the parallel user accounts further comprises:

transmitting an electronic communication from a user account on the first computing infrastructure to a parallel user account; and

measuring a time between the transmitting and receipt of the electronic communication.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

evaluating, by the processor, a subsystem on the second computing infrastructure when the time is longer than a predetermined period of time.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein testing the parallel user accounts further comprises:

monitoring login activity of the parallel user accounts.

20. A method comprising:

selecting, by a processor, user accounts on an installation computing infrastructure to migrate to a cloud-based computing infrastructure based on at least one of;

i) use metrics of the user accounts, or

ii) interactions between users of the user accounts;

provisioning, by the processor, a parallel user account on the cloud-based computing infrastructure for each of the user accounts on the installation computing infrastructure;

migrating, by the processor, information from the user accounts on the installation computing infrastructure to the parallel user accounts;

testing, by the processor, the parallel user accounts; and

deprovisioning, by the processor, the user accounts on the installation computing infrastructure.

21. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

select user accounts on a first computing infrastructure to migrate to a second computing infrastructure;

provision a parallel user account on the second computing infrastructure for each of the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure; and

migrate information from the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure to the parallel user accounts.