NEGOTIATION TOOL AND METHOD FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE DATA SHARING

• US 20120144040A1
• Filed: 10/07/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Laboratories America Inc (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Hacigumus, Vahit Hakan, Sankaranarayanan, Jagan, Tatemura, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,612,600 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/544 Buffers; Shared memory; Pipes

Abstract

A system and method are provided for data sharing. A sharing negotiation tool permits at least one consumer application to negotiate a service level agreement on a dataset which is being shared by a tenant application on a cloud. A capacity planner is configured to determine an appropriate allocation of cloud resources to ensure that the service level agreement of the at least one consumer application is satisfied.

Claims

1. A system for data sharing, comprising:

a sharing negotiation tool permitting at least one consumer application to negotiate a service level agreement (SLA) on a dataset which is being shared by a tenant application on a cloud; and

a capacity planner configured to determine an appropriate allocation of cloud resources to ensure that the SLA of the at least one consumer application is satisfied.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the sharing negotiation tool provides a communication channel which permits the tenant application and at least one consumer application to identify the dataset which is to be shared.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the capacity planner analyzes workloads of the tenant application and at least one consumer application to determine the allocation of cloud resources.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a SLA-aware query dispatcher configured to issue a notification to a database coordinator if the SLA is not being satisfied.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one consumer application comprises a plurality of applications each having a separate SLA agreement.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the tenant application provides at least one standard access template which specifies the dataset which is to be shared with the at least one consumer application.

7. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a replication manager configured to replicate the dataset to improve throughput.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the capacity planner determines how data associated with the tenant application and at least one consumer application is to be organized to satisfy the SLA.

9. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a search interface which permits the at least one consumer application to search for a dataset in the cloud which is to be shared.

10. A method for data sharing, comprising:

negotiating a service level agreement (SLA) on a dataset which is to be shared by a tenant application on a cloud, wherein the tenant application is stored on a computer readable storage medium on the cloud;

determining an appropriate allocation of cloud resources to ensure that the SLA of the at least one consumer application is satisfied.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising providing a communication channel which permits the tenant application and at least one consumer application to identify the dataset which is to be shared.

12. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising analyzing workloads of the tenant application and at least one consumer application to determine the allocation of cloud resources.

13. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising issuing a notification to a database coordinator if the SLA is not being satisfied.

14. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein the at least one consumer application comprises a plurality of applications each having a separate SLA agreement.

15. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein the tenant application provides at least one standard access template which specifies the dataset which is to be shared with the at least one consumer application.

16. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising replicating static datasets if it is determined that throughput can be improved.

17. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising determining how data associated with the tenant application and at least one consumer application is to be organized to satisfy the SLA.

18. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising providing a search interface which permits the at least one consumer application to search for a dataset in the cloud which is to be shared.

19. A system for data sharing, comprising:

a sharing negotiation tool comprising;

a service level agreement (SLA) negotiator configured to facilitate the creation of a SLA on a dataset between at least one consumer application and a platform as a service (PaaS) provider;

a communication tool configured to facilitate an agreement between the at least one consumer application and a tenant application, the agreement specifying the data that the tenant application is to share with the at least one consumer application; and

a search interface which permits the at least one consumer application to search for a dataset in the cloud;

a capacity planner configured to determine an appropriate allocation of cloud resources to ensure that the SLA of the at least one consumer application is satisfied.

20. The system as recited in claim 19, wherein the capacity planner determines how data associated with the tenant application and at least one consumer application is to be organized to satisfy the SLA.