METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A HIGHLY SCALABLE, MULTI-CLOUD SERVICE DEPLOYMENT, ORCHESTRATION AND DELIVERY

• US 20150263979A1
• Filed: 03/14/2014
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veritas Technologies, LLC (Whitehouse Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Avni Networks Inc.
• Inventors: KASTURI, Rohini Kumar
• Granted Patent: US 9,680,708 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/122 of virtualised topologies, e.g. software-defined networks [SDN] or network function virtualisation [NFV]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/70 Virtual switches
• 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

Abstract

A Multi-cloud fabric includes an application management unit responsive to one or more applications from an application layer. The Multi-cloud fabric further includes a controller that is in communication with resources of a cloud. The controller is responsive to the received application and includes a processor operable to analyze the received application relative to the resources to cause delivery of the one or more applications to the resources dynamically and automatically.

Claims

1. A Multi-cloud fabric comprising:

an application management unit responsive to one or more applications from an application layer; and

a controller in communication with resources of a cloud, the controller responsive to the received application and including a processor operable to analyze the received application relative to the resources to cause delivery of the one or more applications to the resources dynamically and automatically.

2. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is virtual.

3. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is physical.

4. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is made of hardware.

5. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is made of software.

6. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is made of hardware and software.

7. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is operable to deploy the one or more native-format applications automatically.

8. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein applications are stitched.

9. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, including L4 through L7 application delivery services, network, or storage.

10. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, operable to automatically stitch end-to-end.

11. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is operable to deploy the one or more native-format applications dynamically.

12. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the controller is in communication with resources of more than one cloud.

13. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 12, wherein the processor is further operable to analyze applications relative to resources of more than one cloud.

14. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, further including a value-added service (VAS) unit, the VAS unit being in communication with the controller and the application management unit and operable to provide analytics to the controller.

15. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 14, wherein the analytics include traffic, response time, connections/second, throughput, network characteristics, disk input/output, or any combination thereof.

16. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 15, wherein the VAS unit is operable to perform a search of data provided by the controller.

17. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 16, wherein the VAS unit is operable to filter the searched data based on a user'"'"'s desire.

18. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, further including a service unit in communication with the controller and operative to configure data of a network based on rules.

19. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 18, wherein the network unit, the network is in communication with the resources.

20. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the controller including a cloud engine operable to assess multiple clouds relative to an application and resources.

21. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the controller including a network enablement engine.

22. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the application deployment fabric includes a plug-in unit responsive to applications with different format applications and operable to convert the different format applications to a native-format application.

23. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the application deployment fabric being operable to report configuration and analytics related to the resources

24. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric spans across multiple clouds.

25. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the cloud is a private cloud or a public.

26. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the cloud is a hybrid cloud.

27. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is operable to configure the resources and to monitor traffic of the resources and based at least on the monitored traffic, re-configure the resources.

28. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 27, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is operable to monitor traffic in real-time and to re-configure the resources in real-time.

29. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is operable to stitch across the cloud and at least one more cloud.

30. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is operable to stitch network services.

31. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 30, wherein the network services are stitched in real-time.

32. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is operable to burst across clouds other than the cloud and access existing resources.

33. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the controller is responsive to test traffic and operative to generate to test traffic.

34. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 33, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is operable to configure resources based on the test traffic.

35. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein upon violation of a policy, the Multi-cloud fabric automatically scales out or scales in the resources.

36. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the controller further includes an service level agreement (SLA) engine operable to monitor and set parameters of different types of SLAs in real-time.

37. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 36, wherein the SLA includes application SLA and networking SLA.

38. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the Multi-cloud fabric is distributed.

39. The application deliver fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the application management unit is operable to receive more than one application with different formats and to generate native-format applications from the more than one application.

40. The Multi-cloud fabric, as recited in claim 1, wherein the resources include storage systems, servers, routers, switches, or any combination thereof.