Method for providing a secondary backup application as a backup for a primary application

A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which is stored a computer program including instructions for providing a secondary backup application as a backup for a primary application, for a predictive standby in a distributed system, the instructions, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform the following steps using a predictive standby manager:

• receiving application-specific state data, the application-specific state data being obtained from monitoring a state of the primary application;
• receiving platform-specific state data, the platform-specific state data being obtained from monitoring a state of at least one platform that executes the primary application;
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• initiating a backup process for using the secondary backup application as the backup for the primary application based on the received application-specific state data and the received platform-specific state data, wherein the predictive standby manager processes both the received application-specific state data and the received platform-specific state data in order to initiate the backup process, and wherein the platform-specific state data includes at least one metric comprising a temperature of the at least one platform, a load of a CPU of the at least one platform, or a utilization of the CPU.

A data processing apparatus configured to provide a secondary backup application as a backup for a primary application, for a predictive standby in a distributed system, the data processing apparatus configured to:

• receive application-specific state data, the application-specific state data being obtained from monitoring a state of the primary application;
• receive platform-specific state data, the platform-specific state data being obtained from monitoring a state of at least one platform that executes the primary application;
• and
• initiate a backup process for using the secondary backup application as the backup for the primary application based on the received application-specific state data and the received platform-specific state data, wherein the predictive standby processes both the received application-specific state data and the received platform-specific state data in order to initiate the backup process, and wherein the platform-specific state data includes at least one metric comprising a temperature of the at least one platform, a load of a CPU of the at least one platform, or a utilization of the CPU.