SYSTEM AND METHOD SUPPORTING APPLICATION SOLUTION COMPOSITION ON CLOUD

• US 20140052773A1
• Filed: 08/27/2012
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Deng, Yu, Karve, Alexei, Kochut, Andrzej, Rendahl, Randy Allan, Sailer, Anca, Shaikh, Hidayatullah Habeebullah
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,108 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols

Abstract

Disclosed is a method, computer-program product and a system to compose an application solution on a cloud-computing platform for a user. The method includes, in response to input from the user, selecting at least one predetermined template that includes a hardware and software instance of a data processing system that is implementable as an solution on a cloud platform; comparing the at least one selected template against a set of constraints; establishing an instance of a cloud based solution for the user based on the selected template; and validating the established cloud based solution against user-uploaded information such as software and workloads to ensure that the solution satisfies requirements of the user, such as both technical and financial requirements of the user.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

at least one computer connected with at least one memory that stores computer program code executable by the at least one computer; and

a user interface connected with the at least one computer;

where execution of the computer program code results in performance of operations that comprise, in response to input from a user received via said user interface, accessing a database to select at least one predetermined template comprised of a hardware and software instance of a data processing system that is implementable as an application solution on a cloud platform;

comparing the at least one selected template against a set of constraints;

establishing an instance of a cloud based solution for the user based on the selected template if the set of constraints is compatible with requirements of the selected template; and

validating the established cloud based solution against user-uploaded software and workloads to ensure that the cloud based solution satisfies requirements of the user.

2. The system of claim 1, where the input from the user is comprised of a budgetary amount allocated by the user to establish the instance of the cloud based solution, and where the set of constraints comprises the budgetary amount and further comprises technical requirements of the user for the instance of the cloud based solution, where the technical requirements comprise any resiliency requirements of the user.

3. The system of claim 2, where the set of constraints further comprises license-related information associated with the user.

4. The system as in claim 1, where the predetermined template is established by an expert and comprises rules concerning best-practices topologies, costs related to hardware and software products supported in the best-practices topologies, and constraints associated with the best-practices topologies.

5. The system as in claim 4, where establishing comprises:

based on specific requirements of the user selecting at least one of the best-practice topologies as a working template;

technically validating the working template against the requirements; and

generating a customized topology by varying combinations of hardware and software of the working template, where varying takes into consideration any resiliency requirements of the user and any licensing constraints of the user.

6. The system of claim 5, where the operation of validating further comprises:

receiving the software uploaded by the user via said user interface, the software comprising a user application to be run on the cloud; and

testing the working template using the uploaded software and workloads.

7. The system of claim 6, where validating comprises testing horizontal/vertical scaling capabilities and any resiliency requirements while considering pricing and any license constraints.

8. The system of claim 1, where new constraints are created or requested by the user to identify a highest performing cloud based solution within the user'"'"'s financial requirements.