IMPLEMENTING COMPARISON OF CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER PACKAGE CONFIGURATIONS

• US 20150228003A1
• Filed: 02/07/2014
• Published: 08/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: Gravitant, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Iyoob, Ilyas, Panzariu, John, Modh, Manish Mahesh
• Application Number:
  US14/175,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20150228003A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 services brokerage platform system includes a virtual data center (VDC) and an architecture management interface. The virtual data center (VDC) includes a plurality of resource groups. Each one of the resource groups includes one or more VDC resources. Each one of the VDC resources is associated with a respective set of resource group specification parameters. The architecture management interface enables an architectural layout of the one or more VDC resources to be displayed. The architectural layout includes a visual depiction of the one or more VDC resources of each one of the resource groups. An arrangement of the visual depiction is dependent upon the respective set of resource group specification parameters.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device, the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method comprising:

accessing information characterizing each one of a plurality of pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations;

receiving configuration parameters characterizing a customized cloud service provider package configuration; and

generating information characterizing a comparison of the customized cloud service provider package configuration therefrom and at least one of the pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein accessing the information characterizing each one of the pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations includes:

accessing a set of configuration parameters for each one of the pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 wherein receiving the information characterizing the customized cloud service provider package configuration includes:

enabling the configuration parameters for at least one of the pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations to be selectively adjusted.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3 wherein generating the information characterizing the comparison includes determining a price associated with utilization of cloud services in accordance with each one of the cloud service provider package configurations included in the comparison.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein receiving the information characterizing the customized cloud service provider package configuration includes:

displaying each one of a plurality of parameter values of a particular one of the pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations within a respective configuration parameter value field; and

enabling each one of the variable configuration parameters to be selectively adjusted.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 wherein generating the information characterizing the comparison includes determining a price associated with utilization of cloud services in accordance with each one of the cloud service provider package configurations included in the comparison.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein generating the information characterizing the comparison includes determining a price associated with utilization of cloud services in accordance with each one of the cloud service provider package configurations included in the comparison.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein:

accessing the information characterizing each one of the pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations includes accessing a set of configuration parameters for each one of the pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations; and

receiving the information characterizing the customized cloud service provider package configuration includes enabling the configuration parameters for at least one of the pre-configured cloud service provider package configurations to be selectively adjusted.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device, the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method comprising:

maintaining a respective set of configuration parameter values for each one of a plurality of cloud service provider package configurations; and

determining a price associated with utilization of cloud services in accordance with each one of the cloud service provider package configurations for each one of a plurality of cloud service providers, wherein determining the price for each one of the cloud service provider package configurations is performed dependent upon the respective set of configuration parameter values thereof.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein maintaining the respective set of configuration parameter values for each one of the cloud service provider package configurations includes enabling at least one of the respective set of configuration parameter values to be selectively modified for creating a custom cloud service provider package configuration therefrom.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 wherein enabling the at least one of the respective set of configuration parameter values to be selectively modified includes:

displaying the respective set of parameter values for a particular one of the cloud service provider package configurations; and

enabling each one of the parameter values to be selectively adjusted.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 wherein the respective set of configuration parameter values for each one of the cloud service provider package configurations defines a respective virtual machine.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein:

the method further comprises selectively associating a plurality of cloud service providers with each one of the cloud service provider package configurations; and

determining the price associated with utilization of cloud services in accordance with each one of the cloud service provider package configurations for each one of a plurality of cloud service providers is performed for each one of the cloud service providers selectively associated therewith.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 wherein the method further comprises enabling a comparison of information characterizing the cloud service provider package configurations of each one of the cloud service providers to be selectively displayed.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 wherein the respective set of configuration parameter values for each one of the cloud service provider package configurations defines a respective virtual machine.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 wherein maintaining the respective set of configuration parameter values for each one of the cloud service provider package configurations includes enabling at least one of the respective set of configuration parameter values to be selectively modified for creating a custom cloud service provider package configuration therefrom.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device, the instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method comprising:

providing, for each one of a plurality of cloud service providers, a comparison of a price associated with utilization of cloud services in accordance with a pre-configured cloud service provider package configuration; and

providing, for each one of the cloud service providers, a comparison of information characterizing a cloud service offering comprising the pre-configured cloud service provider package configuration.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein the method further comprises enabling a set of configuration parameter values of the cloud service provider package configuration to be selectively modified for creating a custom cloud service provider package configuration therefrom.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 wherein the method further comprises providing, for each one of the cloud service providers, a comparison of a price associated with utilization of cloud services in accordance with the custom cloud service provider package configuration.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18 wherein the set of configuration parameter values of the cloud service provider package configuration defines a respective virtual machine.