SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATION ACROSS CLOUD PROVIDERS

• US 20120005359A1
• Filed: 07/01/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Seago, Scott Wayne, Guiditta, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 8,725,891 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5044 considering hardware capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing

Abstract

A method and apparatus for aggregating cloud system resources is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request to start a cloud computing session. The method may also include determining a cloud computing system from among a plurality of cloud computing systems that satisfies the request. Furthermore, the method may include routing the request to the determined cloud computing system to initiate the cloud computing session.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a request, at a server computer system, to start a cloud computing session;

determining a cloud computing system from among a plurality of cloud computing systems that satisfies the request; and

routing the request to the determined cloud computing system to initiate the cloud computing session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining further comprises:

determining a mapping of cloud computing resources specified in the request to the cloud computing system; and

routing the request based on the determined mapping.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the cloud computing resources are cloud computing resource requirements specified by a client computer system.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the cloud computing resources include at least one of a quality of service, cloud computing system platform, processing speed, cost, locality, cloud computing system provider, and user permission.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the request does not identify a cloud computing system that is to satisfy the request.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an update to the cloud computing session;

determining a new cloud computing system from among the plurality of cloud computing systems that can satisfy the request based on the update; and

routing future requests to the new cloud computing system.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an indication of a new cloud computing system;

determining one or more cloud computing resources provided by the new cloud computing system;

updating a mapping database to map one or more users to the new cloud computing system based on the the one or more cloud computing resources.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of cloud computing systems include a plurality of disparate cloud computing systems.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the routing further comprises:

routing the request to the determined cloud computing system through a cloud interface system, wherein the cloud interface system translates cloud systems requests from a neutral format to a vendor-specific format of the determined cloud computing system.

10. A computer readable storage medium that provides instructions, which when executed on a processing system cause the processing system to perform a method comprising:

receiving a request to start a cloud computing session;

determining a cloud computing system from among a plurality of cloud computing systems that satisfies the request; and

routing the request to the determined cloud computing system to initiate the cloud computing session.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein determining further comprises:

determining a mapping of cloud computing resources specified in the request to the cloud computing system; and

routing the request based on the determined mapping.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the cloud computing resources are cloud computing resource requirements specified by a client computer system.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the cloud computing resources include at least one of a quality of service, cloud computing system platform, processing speed, cost, locality, cloud computing system provider, and user permission.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the request does not identify a cloud computing system that is to satisfy the request.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving an update to the cloud computing session;

determining a new cloud computing system from among the plurality of cloud computing systems that can satisfy the request based on the update; and

routing future requests to the new cloud computing system.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving an indication of a new cloud computing system;

determining one or more cloud computing resources provided by the new cloud computing system;

updating a mapping database to map one or more users to the new cloud computing system based on the the one or more cloud computing resources.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the plurality of cloud computing systems include a plurality of disparate cloud computing systems.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the routing further comprises:

routing the request to the determined cloud computing system through a cloud interface system, wherein the cloud interface system translates cloud systems requests from a neutral format to a vendor-specific format of the determined cloud computing system.

19. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device coupled with the memory to execute a cloud system router to

receive a request to start a cloud computing session,

determine a cloud computing system from among a plurality of cloud computing systems that satisfies the request, and

route the request to the determined cloud computing system to initiate the cloud computing session.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the cloud system router to further determine a mapping of cloud computing resources specified in the request to the cloud computing system, and route the request based on the determined mapping.