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Migration to managed clouds

US9692632B2 · kind B2 · utility

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6References

17Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Kamal Bhattacharya · Nairobi, KE
Florian Graf · Mülheim an der Ruhr, DE
Matthew A. Markley · Hays, US
Birgit M. Pfitzmann · Samstagern, CH
Marcel Schlatter · Neuhausen, CH
Hsiao C. Thio · Palatine, US
Gerhard Widmayer · Herrenberg, DE
Xiaolan Zhang · Chappaqua, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 29, 2012
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 21, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/1097
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A foreign instance is transferred from a customer environment to a target infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as an image. The foreign instance is adjusted to standards of the infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment to obtain an adjusted instance. The adjusted instance is registered into a management system of the infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment.

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