SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING OPTIMIZED HOST PLACEMENT OF DATA PAYLOAD IN CLOUD-BASED STORAGE NETWORK

• US 20120303740A1
• Filed: 05/27/2011
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2011
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 9,262,498 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/182 Distributed file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/278 Data partitioning, e.g. horizontal or vertical partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating optimized host placement of data payload in a cloud-based storage network. In aspects, a user can maintain a user premise network including servers, clients, local area networks, data stores, and/or other network assets. An administrator or other user of the premise network may wish to extract data from the premise network and transfer that data payload to a set of host storage clouds to leverage cost, redundancy, consolidation, or other cloud advantages. The placement tool can evaluate potential target cloud-based data stores based on various or multiple parameters for the hosting features offered by different cloud providers. The tool can generate a determination of the target host or hosts which can provide the best-matched or optimized data hosting facilities or services for the user'"'"'s data payload in the cloud. The selected target(s) can be based on cost, capacity, security, compatibility, or other parameters or specifications, which can be user-specified or user-weighted.

Claims

8-1. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaluating a set of operational parameters for the set of host storage clouds against the set of data hosting parameters comprises identifying a best-available match between the set of data hosting parameters and the set of operational parameters comprises generating a matching score between the set of data hosting parameters and the set of operational parameters.

14. A system for managing the transport of data, comprising:

an interface to a data distribution service hosting a data payload stored in a set of staged data stores; and

a processor, communicating with the data distribution service via the interface, the processor being configured to—

receive an identification of the data payload to be transported from a data distribution service to at least one target storage cloud in a set of host storage clouds,

access a set of data hosting parameters specifying parameters for the hosting of the data payload in the at least one target storage cloud,

evaluate a set of operational parameters for the set of host storage clouds against the set of data hosting parameters, and

select the at least one target storage cloud based on the evaluating of the set of operational parameters for the set of host storage clouds.