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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJeffrey Robert Hoy, Nataraj Nagaratnam, Kaushal Kiran Kapadia, Ravi Krishnan Muthukrishnan, Sreekanth Ramakrishna Iyer
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A cloud infrastructure security assurance service is enhanced to facilitate bursting of cloud applications into other cloud infrastructures. The security assurance service provides a mechanism to enable creation and management of secure application zones within a cloud infrastructure. When the security assurance service receives an indication that a workload associated with a cloud application triggers a cloud burst, the service is extended into a new cloud infrastructure. Once the security assurance service is instantiated in the new cloud infrastructure, it identifies the broad security requirements of the application, as well as the security capabilities of the new environment. Using this information, the security assurance service computes a minimal security environment needed by the cloud application for the burst operation. The security assurance service then configures the necessary topology in the new cloud environment, and the burst operation is then completed by having the cloud application deployed in that topology.
A method to facilitate bursting of a cloud application to a new cloud provider, comprising:
Apparatus, comprising:
A computer program product in a non-transitory computer readable medium for use in a data processing system, the computer program product holding computer program instructions executed by the data processing system to facilitate bursting of a cloud application to a new cloud provider, the computer program instructions comprising program code operative to:
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