Disaster recovery and automatic relocation of cloud services
US8639793B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 4, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jan 28, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 24, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/203
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are provided to move the services performed on one device to another device in a cloud computing system for a variety of reasons including failure, maintenance or upgrade of the device. A notification is received that services performed by an impacted device in a domain of a plurality of hierarchical domains need to be moved. A determination is made as to whether there are replacement resources available in the domain to perform the services, and if so, the replacement resources are automatically rendered to perform the services. The process continues to higher level domains that have a view into the capabilities of subordinate domains in order to determine where to move the services within the cloud computing system.
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