Distributed platform as a service

• US 9,338,218 B1
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Issued: 05/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Florissi, Patricia G. S., Vijendra, Sudhir
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice
• Application Number:
  US13/535,821
• Time in Patent Office: 1,412 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/508 based on type of value added network service under agreement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• 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 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) comprising capturing metadata about the big data stored in clouds at an informational infrastructure layer.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for providing a cloud platform as a service (PaaS), the method comprising:

capturing metadata about big data stored in clouds at an informational infrastructure layer;

storing the captured metadata in the informational infrastructure layer, wherein the information infrastructure layer enables the clouds to subscribe to information from other clouds via the information infrastructure layer and publish information for consumption by other clouds via the information infrastructure layer; and

enabling connectivity between the clouds, wherein the connectivity enables a user to view the clouds as a single cloud;

wherein the information infrastructure layer is communicatively coupled to a (world wide) WW management console;

wherein the management console enables translation of Distribute System commands to the single cloud into one or more commands of an underlying architecture for each cloud;

wherein a distributed system command is tracked by a world wide job tracker;

where the world wide job tracker tracks completion of world wide task trackers;

wherein world wide tasks tracked by the world wide task trackers make up the world wide job.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the PaaS provides services include providing cloud tools, cloud services, and cloud APIs.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the informational infrastructure layer commands comprise reading, writing, updating and inserting data and enable offering the PaaS services.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the informational infrastructure layer provides as set of tools and services which support performing analytics in a multiple parallel processing architecture.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the PaaS enables a marketplace for multiple parallel processing tools and services.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the clouds are enabled to be physically co-located.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more commands are tracked by one or more world wide task trackers.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the big data stored in the clouds may be replicated into a back-up/disaster recovery cloud;

wherein the back-up/disaster recover cloud defines a set of back-up services to provide a secondary storage location to retrieve information for a primary source.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the clouds are enabled to send and receive information between each of the clouds.

20. The method of claim 1 wherein the clouds are enabled to be vertically integrated.

8. A computer program product for providing a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executable program code, the code configured to enable the execution of;

capturing metadata about the big data stored in clouds at an informational infrastructure layer;

storing the captured metadata in the informational infrastructure layer, wherein the information infrastructure layer enables the clouds to subscribe to information from other

clouds via the information infrastructure layer and publish information for consumption by other clouds via the information infrastructure layer; and

enabling connectivity between the clouds, wherein the connectivity enables a user to view the clouds as a single cloud;

wherein the information infrastructure layer is communicatively coupled to a (world wide) WW management console;

wherein the management console enables translation of Distribute System commands to the single cloud into one or more commands of an underlying architecture for each cloud;

wherein a distributed system command is tracked by a world wide job tracker;

where the world wide job tracker tracks completion of world wide task trackers;

wherein world wide tasks tracked by the world wide task trackers make up the world wide job.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the PaaS provides services include providing cloud tools, cloud services, and cloud APIs.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the informational infrastructure commands comprise reading, writing, updating and inserting data and enable offering the Paas services.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the informational infrastructure layer provides as set of tools and services which support performing analytics in a multiple parallel processing architecture.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the PaaS enables a marketplace for multiple parallel processing tools and services.

13. An apparatus for providing a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) comprising:

capturing metadata about the big data stored in clouds at an informational infrastructure layer;

storing the captured metadata in the informational infrastructure layer, wherein the information infrastructure layer enables the clouds to subscribe to information from other clouds via the information infrastructure layer and publish information for consumption by other clouds via the information infrastructure layer; and

enabling connectivity between the clouds, wherein the connectivity enables a user to view the clouds as a single cloud;

wherein the information infrastructure layer is communicatively coupled to a (world wide) WW management console;

wherein the management console enables translation of Distribute System commands to the single cloud into one or more commands of an underlying architecture for each cloud;

wherein a distributed system command is tracked by a world wide job tracker;

where the world wide job tracker tracks completion of world wide task trackers;

wherein world wide tasks tracked by the world wide task trackers make up the world wide job.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein the PaaS provides services include providing cloud tools, cloud services, and cloud APIs.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the informational infrastructure commands comprise reading, writing, updating and inserting data and enable offering the Paas services.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the informational infrastructure layer provides as set of tools and services which support performing analytics in a multiple parallel processing architecture.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the PaaS enables a marketplace for multiple parallel processing tools and services.