Data Migration Into And Out Of The Cloud Via A Data Kiosk/System

• US 20130282919A1
• Filed: 04/20/2012
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sungard Availability Services LP (Sungard Availability Services Capital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sungard Availability Services LP (Sungard Availability Services Capital, Inc.)
• Inventors: McGovern, Jeffrey S., Richards, Eugene Paul III, Hemachandran, Satish
• Application Number:
  US13/452,549
• Publication Number:
  US 20130282919A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/238
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A kiosk for migrating customer data into or out of a production cloud environment without impacting the production cloud environment is provided. Aspects of the kiosk include: i) supporting customer data migration that require physical or network access and ii) separating data migration traffic from production traffic.

Claims

1. A method for operating a production cloud comprising:

carrying production traffic to and/or from production data processing resources located within the production cloud and accessible to a customer over a production data traffic path;

providing a connection to a secure storage kiosk via one or more migration traffic paths that are separate from the production data traffic path; and

migrating customer data into and/or out of the production data processing resources via the secure storage kiosk over at least one migration traffic path that is separate from the production data traffic path.

2. A method as in claim 1 wherein the migrating step further comprises:

using a migration appliance that is physically sized to be shipped between a customer location and a service provider location for moving the customer data.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one migration traffic path includes a network data interface configured to send and receive the customer data to and from a customer location.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the migration traffic path supports access through the Internet using any one of:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) or File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the migration traffic path is physical delivery of a storage device.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the storage device is one of:

compact disk (CD), digital versatile disk (DVD), universal serial bus (USB) device, network-attached storage (NAS) or combinations thereof.

7. The method of claim 1 further wherein the one or more migration traffic paths are selectively established between the secure storage kiosk and one or more production virtual data centers.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the customer data is one or more of a virtual machine definition file, operating system upgrade, application or media file.

9. The method of claim 1 further wherein:

the production data processing resources comprise one or more of a cloud storage, cloud compute, or cloud network resource.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the connection between the secure storage kiosk and the production data resources comprises two secure connections, a first secure connection between a customer location and the secure storage kiosk, and a second secure connection between the secure storage kiosk and the production data resources.

11. An apparatus for accessing a data processing system comprising:

a first interface, for providing a product data traffic path for carrying production traffic to and/or from production data processing resources accessible to a customer;

a secure storage kiosk, for providing one or more migration traffic paths that are separate from the production data trafficpath, and for migrating customer data into and/or out of the production data processing resources over at least one migration traffic path that is separate from the production data traffic path.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the secure storage kiosk additionally comprises:

a migration data storage appliance that is physically sized to be shipped between a customer location and a service provider location for the production data processing resources.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the migration traffic path supports access through the Internet using any one of:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) or File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

16. The apparatus of claim 11 further wherein the one or more migration traffic paths provide a connection between the secure storage kiosk and one or more production virtual data centers.

17. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the customer data is one or more of a virtual machine definition file, operating system upgrade, application or media file.

18. The apparatus of claim 11 further wherein:

the production data processing resources comprise one or more of a cloud storage, cloud compute, or cloud network resource.

19. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the connection between the secure storage kiosk and the production data resources comprises two secure connections, a first secure connection between a customer location and the secure storage kiosk, and a second secure connection between the secure storage kiosk and the production data resources.

14. The apparatus 11 wherein the migration traffic path is physical delivery of a storage device.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the storage device is one of:

compact disk (CD), digital versatile disk (DVD), universal serial bus (USB) device, network-attached storage (NAS) or combinations thereof

20. A programmable computer system product for operaeting a production cloud, the programmable computer system product comprising one or more data processing machines that execute instructions retrieved from a storage media, the instructions for:

carrying production traffic to and/or from production data processing resources located within the production cloud and accessible to a customer over a production data traffic path;

providing a connection to a secure storage kiosk via one or more migration traffic paths that are separate from the production data traffic path; and

migrating customer data into and/or out of the production data processing resources via the secure storage kiosk over at least one migration traffic path that is separate from the production data traffic path