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Budget Management in a Compute Cloud

  • US 20110313902A1
  • Filed: 06/18/2010
  • Published: 12/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method, in a data processing system, for managing a budget for a customer in a compute cloud, the method comprising:

  • calculating, by a cloud budget manager, charges for usage of compute cloud resources by each of the customer'"'"'s services associated with the customer from a beginning of a time period to a current time thereby forming calculated charges;

    estimating, by the cloud budget manager, charges for a remaining time in the time period thereby forming estimated charges;

    determining, by the cloud budget manager, whether a sum of the calculated charges and the estimated charges exceeds an allocated budget; and

    responsive to a determination that the sum of the calculated charges and the estimated charges exceeds the allocated budget, implementing, by the cloud budget manager, a policy in a plurality of policies that adjusts a level of services of the customer in order to fall within the allocated budget.

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