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Provisioner within cloud console—defining images of an enterprise to be operable on different cloud computing providers

  • US 9,086,928 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2009
  • Issued: 07/21/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of provisioning a plurality of computing resources, said method comprising:

  • accessing a user selection of said plurality of computing resources and of a plurality of cloud providers operable to implement said plurality of computing resources, wherein said user selection is input via a graphical user interface generic to said plurality of cloud providers;

    accessing a plurality of scripts associated with said plurality of cloud providers, wherein each script of said plurality of scripts corresponds to a respective cloud provider of said plurality of cloud providers, and wherein each script of said plurality of scripts is operable to allocate a computing resource on said respective cloud provider;

    automatically allocating, using said plurality of scripts, said plurality of computing resources on said plurality of cloud providers to a plurality of virtual machines; and

    assigning a user permission level to a user, wherein said user permission level defines at least one operation said user is allowed to perform on a component associated with said plurality of computing resources, wherein the at least one operation is selected from a group consisting of creation of said component, deletion of said component, updating of said component and using said component.

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