SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MIGRATING SUBSCRIBED SERVICES FROM A SET OF CLOUDS TO A SECOND SET OF CLOUDS

• US 20120137003A1
• Filed: 11/30/2010
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Ferris, James Michael, Riveros, Gerry Edward
• Granted Patent: US 8,909,784 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A decision system for providing ranked candidate cloud computing environments to customers for migration of subscribed services. The decision system can receive user usage history data and compare parameters of subscribed services on a host cloud to candidate clouds. Based on the comparison, a rank of candidate clouds for migration of the subscribed services can be determined and supplied to the customer.

Claims

1. A method of migrating a customer'"'"'s subscribed services from a first set of clouds to a second set of clouds comprising:

receiving data representing a list of the customer'"'"'s subscribed services and corresponding usage histories from the first set of clouds;

determining a plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the list of customer'"'"'s subscribed services; and

comparing, using a computer, the first set of clouds to the plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the usage histories.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

producing a report of possible migration options for the plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the comparison.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein producing the report of the possible migration options for the plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the comparison, further comprises:

receiving a list of customer criteria; and

ranking the plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the list of customer criteria.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

supplying the report of the possible migration options for the plurality of candidate cloud environments to the customer.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving a selected set of candidate cloud environments from the list of possible migration options for the plurality of cloud environments.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

migrating the customer'"'"'s subscribed services from the first set of cloud computing environments to the selected set of candidate cloud environments.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the subscribed services comprise at least one of, identity management services, firewall services, security services, messaging services, data storage services, backup services, file maintenance services, network services, language services, authorization services, information technology services, information technology support services, commerce services, business intelligence services, web hosting services, web design services, or advertising services.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the corresponding usage histories comprise:

at least one of, instances of the subscribed service, cloud utilization, cost per instance of subscribed service, cost per total instances of subscribed service, duration of instances, cost of cloud utilization, or total cost for subscribed services.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein comparing the first set of cloud computing environments to the plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the usage histories comprises:

comparing cloud utilization and cost of cloud utilization between the first set of cloud computing environments and the plurality of candidate cloud environments.

10. A system for migrating a customer'"'"'s subscribed services requirements from a first set of cloud computing environments to a second set of cloud computing environments comprising:

an interface to a set of resources in multiple cloud computing environments; and

a processor, communicating with the set of resources in the multiple cloud computing environments via the interface, the processor configured to perform operations comprising;

receiving data representing a list of the customer'"'"'s subscribed services and corresponding usage histories from the first set of cloud computing environments;

determining a plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the list of customer'"'"'s subscribed services; and

comparing, using a computer, the first set of cloud computing environments to the plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the usage histories.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to perform operations comprising:

producing a report of the plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the comparison.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to perform operations comprising:

supplying the report of the plurality of candidate cloud environments to the customer.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving a selected set of candidate cloud environments from the report of the plurality of cloud environments.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to perform operations comprising:

migrating the customer'"'"'s subscribed services from the first set of cloud computing environments to the selected set of candidate cloud environments.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the subscribed services comprise at least one of, identity management services, firewall services, security services, messaging services, data storage services, backup services, file maintenance services, network services, language services, authorization services, information technology services, information technology support services, commerce services, business intelligence services, web hosting services, web design services, or advertising services.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the corresponding usage histories comprise:

at least one of, instances of the subscribed service, cloud utilization, cost per instance of subscribed service, cost per total instances of subscribed service, duration of instances, cost of cloud utilization, or total cost for subscribed services.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the operation of comparing the first set of cloud computing environments to the plurality of candidate cloud environments based on the usage histories comprises:

comparing cloud utilization and cost of cloud utilization between the first set of cloud computing environments and the candidate cloud environments.