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On-boarding applications to a cloud

  • US 8,856,787 B2
  • Filed: 08/29/2012
  • Issued: 10/07/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2011
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • providing an application for hosting in a cloud environment;

    providing metadata related to the application;

    obtaining metadata related to the cloud;

    comparing the application metadata and cloud metadata;

    ascertaining the compatibility of the application an existing offering of the cloud; and

    on-boarding the application to the cloud via performing the following;

    (a) determining whether the application matches an existing offering of the cloud and, if so, mapping the existing offering to the application;

    if (a) does not apply;

    (b) ascertaining whether a new offering can be defined on the cloud and, if so, deploying the application to the cloud;

    if (b) does not apply;

    (c) ascertaining whether a template creation tool can create a template of the application for being hosted on the cloud and, if so, hosting the template of the application on the cloud; and

    if (c) does not apply;

    (d) ascertaining whether it is possible to load the application on a virtual machine on the cloud and, if so, loading the application on a virtual machine on the cloud.

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