CLOUD SERVICE BUS AND CLOUD SERVICES BROKERAGE PLATFORM COMPRISING SAME

• US 20140280848A1
• Filed: 03/13/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: Gravitant, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Modh, Manish Mahesh, Dave, Kedar Prakashbhai, Sapuram, Raghunath
• Application Number:
  US14/210,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20140280848A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0629 for generating comparisons
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/062 related to network traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/78 Architectures of resource allocation
• 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

Abstract

A cloud service integration structure of a cloud services brokering platform comprises a workflow engine and plurality of provisioning adapters. The workflow engine is configured to support workflow definitions for cloud services of various types and for cloud service providers each offering one or more of the cloud services. The plurality of provisioning adapters are each configured for integrating with one or more of the cloud service providers to enable tasks required for provisioning of the cloud services to be performed therewith.

Claims

1. A cloud service integration structure of a cloud services brokering platform, comprising:

a workflow engine configured to support workflow definitions for cloud services of various types and for cloud service providers each offering one or more of the cloud services; and

a plurality of provisioning adapters each configured for integrating with one or more of the cloud service providers to enable tasks required for provisioning of the cloud services to be performed therewith.

2. The cloud services integration structure of claim 1 wherein being configured for integrating with one or more of the cloud service providers includes being configured to implement one or more specific provisioning application programming interfaces (APIs) for each operation of a respective one of the tasks that is mapped to one or more corresponding service provider APIs.

3. The cloud services integration structure of claim 1 wherein the workflow engine and the provisioning adapters are jointly configured for enabling execution of the tasks in a parallel and asynchronous manner with respect to the cloud services and cloud service providers.

5. The cloud services integration structure of claim 1 wherein the workflow engine invokes a protocol library using at least one of metadata for one or more service providers and credentials for one or more service providers.

6. The cloud services integration structure of claim 1 wherein the workflow engine and the provisioning adapters support APIs of a plurality of the service providers.

7. The cloud services integration structure of claim 6 wherein the workflow engine and the provisioning adapters are jointly configured for enabling execution of the tasks in a parallel and asynchronous manner with respect to the cloud services and cloud service providers.

8. The cloud services integration structure of claim 7 wherein the workflow engine invokes a protocol library using metadata for one or more service providers and credentials for one or more service providers.

4. The cloud services integration structure of claim 4 wherein being configured for integrating with one or more of the cloud service providers includes being configured to implement one or more specific provisioning application programming interfaces (APIs) for each operation of a respective one of the tasks that is mapped to one or more corresponding service provider APIs.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor, coupled to said memory, and operative to;

perform brokering of cloud services offered by a plurality of cloud service providers on behalf of a plurality of cloud service consumers;

determine tasks required for provisioning of the cloud services brokered on behalf of the cloud service consumers; and

use one or more provisioning adapters to execute the tasks with respect to the cloud services and cloud service providers.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein at least a portion of the one or more provisioning adapters is configured for integrating with one or more of the cloud service providers.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein being configured for integrating with one or more of the cloud service providers includes being configured to implement one or more specific provisioning application programming interfaces (APIs) for each operation of a respective one of the tasks that is mapped to one or more corresponding service provider APIs.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein a plurality of the tasks are executed in a parallel and asynchronous manner with respect to the cloud services and cloud service providers.

13. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein being operative to use one or more provisioning adapters to execute the tasks includes being operative to invoke a protocol library using at least one of metadata for one or more service providers and credentials for one or more service providers.

14. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein being operative to use one or more provisioning adapters to execute the tasks includes being operative to support APIs of a plurality of the service providers.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein a plurality of the tasks are executed in a parallel and asynchronous manner with respect to the cloud services and cloud service providers.

16. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

performing brokering of cloud services offered by a plurality of cloud service providers on behalf of a plurality of cloud service consumers;

determining tasks required for provisioning of the cloud services brokered on behalf of the cloud service consumers; and

accessing one or more provisioning adapters for enabling execution of the tasks with respect to the cloud services and cloud service providers.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 wherein at least a portion of the one or more provisioning adapters is configured for integrating with one or more of the cloud service providers.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17 wherein being configured for integrating with one or more of the cloud service providers includes being configured to implement one or more specific provisioning application programming interfaces (APIs) for each operation of a respective one of the tasks that is mapped to one or more corresponding service provider APIs.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 wherein enabling execution of the tasks includes enabling a plurality of the tasks to be executed in a parallel and asynchronous manner with respect to the cloud services and cloud service providers.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 wherein enabling execution of the tasks includes invoking a protocol library using metadata for one or more service providers and credentials for one or more service providers.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 wherein enabling execution of the tasks includes supporting APIs of a plurality of the service providers.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 wherein enabling execution of the tasks includes enabling a plurality of the tasks to be executed in a parallel and asynchronous manner with respect to the cloud services and cloud service providers.