Techniques for evaluating and managing cloud networks via political and natural events
AssigneeNovell, Inc.
InventorsScott Alan Isaacson, Stephen R Carter
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Abstract
Techniques for evaluating and managing cloud networks via political and natural events are provided. Geographical locations for cloud processing environments are combined with attributes and usage metrics to form associations between each cloud processing environment's geographical location and that cloud's corresponding attributes and usage metrics. Some associations and attributes relate to political and natural events. The political and natural events are used to update a proper selection of a particular cloud processing environment to handle targeted services.
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A method stored as executable instructions within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that is executed by one or more processors of a network to perform the method, comprising:
- acquiring a state for a cloud processing environment having been tested with test data, the state representing an association between geographical data for the cloud processing environment, attribute data for the cloud processing environment, and previously obtained metric usage data acquired from testing the cloud processing environment via the test data;
- mining news feeds for natural event data and political event data, and assigning a code for each natural event and for each political event mined, and mapping each code to a specific event type and a specific policy, each policy defining automated actions to perform based on the specific event type;
- updating the state with the natural event data and the political event data linked to the geographical data from the mining of the news feeds, the natural event data and the political event data are also linked with particular resources of the cloud processing environment and a geographical location for the geographical data based on the actions defined in a given policy that drives relationships among the political event data, the natural event data, the geographical location, and the particular resources;
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- using the updated state to make real-time decisions for services associated with the cloud processing environment.
A method stored as executable instructions within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that is executed by one or more processors of a network to perform the method, comprising:
- configuring a natural event repository to house descriptive details regarding physical events beyond human control along with natural event policies for actions to take in response to the descriptive details;
- configuring a political event repository to house statements regarding affairs of entities or governments along with political event policies for action to take in response to the statements;
- selectively linking natural event entries in the natural event repository to political event entries in the political event repository;
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- providing access to the natural event repository and the political event repository to make dynamic decisions on selections of cloud computing environments for handling services of a principal, the natural event entries and political event entries linked to specific resources of the cloud computing environments and linked to specific geographical locations based on relationships defined in the natural event policies and the political event policies.
A multiprocessor-implemented system, comprising:
- a cloud deployment manager implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and to execute on one or more processors of a network;
- a natural event repository implemented in anon-transitory computer-readable storage medium and accessed by one or more processors of the network;
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- a political event repository implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and accessed by one or more processors of the network;
- the cloud deployment manager is configured to evaluate entries in the natural event repository and the political event repository to update a state associated with a target cloud processing environment, the cloud deployment manager is further configured to reroute services from the target cloud processing environment to an alternative cloud processing environment in response to the evaluation of the entries, natural event data and political event data are linked with particular resources of the target cloud processing environment and a geographical location based on relationships defined in policies.
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