Hybrid cloud data control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12561157-B2
Application number	US-202217652461-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2022
Priority date	Dec 2, 2021
Publication date	Feb 24, 2026
Grant date	Feb 24, 2026

Abstract

A remote server computing system is configured to present a user interface with a plurality of deployment configuration options including compute configuration options and data storage configuration options for energy-related data within a hybrid cloud environment. The hybrid cloud environment comprises a cloud-service-managed control plane and a data plane utilizing local compute resources and storage. A data control policy is generated that provides cloud-service-managed governance over at least a portion of the data plane. The control plane is configured to enforce the data control policy by subjecting at least a portion of the energy-related data to a data transmission restriction or a local storage restriction. The data plane is used to deploy one or more cloud service functions configured to process at least the portion of the energy-related data and output one or more extracted features from at least the portion of the energy-related data to the data plane.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A remote server computing system, comprising:
a processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
present a user interface with a plurality of deployment configuration options including compute configuration options and data storage configuration options for energy-related data within a hybrid cloud environment comprising a cloud-service-managed control plane and a data plane utilizing local compute resources and storage located on-premises at an energy production or distribution facility, the cloud-service-managed control plane and the data plane spanning the remote server computing system, a local edge computing device, and the local compute resources and storage, wherein:
the plurality of deployment configuration options includes a regulatory compliance template that is displayed at the user interface and that specifies that the energy-related data is stored on one or more storage devices located within a geographic area, and
the energy-related data is subject to a data transmission restriction within the geographic area;

receive a user input of one or more of the deployment configuration options, wherein the one or more deployment configuration options include the regulatory compliance template;
generate a data control policy that provides cloud-service-managed governance over at least a portion of the data plane using the one or more user-input deployment configuration options;
provide the data control policy to the local edge computing device and the local compute resources via the cloud-service-managed control plane, wherein the cloud-service-managed control plane is configured to enforce the data control policy at least in part by:
subjecting at least a portion of the energy-related data to the data transmission restriction by preventing transmission of the energy-related data to a first destination; and
allowing transmission of the portion of the energy-related data to a second destination;

use the data plane to deploy one or more cloud service functions to the local compute resources, the one or more cloud service functions configured to process at least the portion of the energy-related data and output one or more extracted features from at least the portion of the energy-related data to the data plane; and
receive, via the data plane, the one or more extracted features from at least the portion of the energy-related data.

2 . The remote server computing system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable to:
determine that the remote server computing system is located in a sovereign cloud; wherein the regulatory compliance template permits access to the energy-related data via the sovereign cloud; and receive, via the data plane, at least the portion of the energy-related data subject to the data transmission restriction.

3 . The remote server computing system of claim 1 , further comprising a network connection between the remote server computing system and the local edge computing device, wherein the instructions are further executable to:
determine that a latency of the network connection is greater than or equal to a threshold latency; wherein the plurality of deployment configuration options includes a high-latency network template that is displayed at the user interface and that specifies that the energy-related data is processed at the local edge computing device; and based on determining that the latency of the network connection is greater than or equal to the threshold latency, populate the user interface with the high-latency network template.

4 . The remote server computing system of claim 3 , wherein the threshold latency is 50 ms.

5 . The remote server computing system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable to:
determine that a data volume of the energy-related data is greater than or equal to a threshold data volume; wherein the plurality of deployment configuration options includes a high-data-volume template that is displayed at the user interface and that specifies that the energy-related data is stored and processed at the local edge computing device; and based on determining that the data volume of the energy-related data is greater than or equal to the threshold data volume, populate the user interface with the high-data-volume template.

6 . The remote server computing system of claim 5 , wherein the threshold data volume is in the range of 10-15 terabytes (TB) streaming data per day per site.

7 . The remote server computing system of claim 1 , further comprising a network connection between the local edge computing device and the local compute resources, wherein the instructions are further executable to:
determine that the network connection is intermittent; wherein the plurality of deployment configuration options includes an intermittent connection template that is displayed at the user interface and that specifies that the energy-related data is cached and processed on the local compute resources and storage; and based on determining that the network connection is intermittent, populate the user interface with the intermittent connection template.

8 . The remote server computing system of claim 1 , wherein the local compute resources and storage comprise one or more physical computing devices running a cluster comprising a plurality of virtual machines.

9 . The remote server computing system of claim 1 , wherein a container platform of the local compute resources and storage is a foundation for applications and services to be deployed across the hybrid cloud environment.

10 . The remote server computing system of claim 1 , wherein the data control policy comprises one or more files in a distributed version control repository.

11 . The remote server computing system of claim 1 , wherein the cloud-service-managed control plane is further configured to enforce the data control policy by subjecting at least the portion of the energy-related data to a local storage restriction.

12 . At a computing device, a method for providing cloud-service-managed governance in a hybrid cloud environment comprising a cloud-service-managed control plane and a data plane utilizing local compute resources and storage located on-premises at an energy production or distribution facility, the cloud-service-managed control plane and the data plane spanning a remote server computing system, a local edge computing device, and the local compute resources and storage, the method comprising:
presenting a user interface with a plurality of deployment configuration options including compute configuration options and data storage configuration options for energy-related data within the hybrid cloud environment, wherein:
the plurality of deployment configuration options includes a regulatory compliance template that is displayed at the user interface and that specifies that the energy-related data is stored on one or more storage devices located within a geographic area, and
the energy-related data is subject to a data transmission restriction within the geographic area;
receiving a user input of one or more of the deployment configuration options, wherein the one or more deployment configuration options include the regulatory compliance template; generating a data control policy that provides cloud-service-managed governance over at least a portion of the data plane using the one or more user-input deployment configuration options; providing the data control policy to the local edge computing device and the local compute resources via the cloud-service-managed control plane, wherein the cloud-service-managed control plane

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Garg Shikha
• Scholl Daniel Keith
• Umay Mehmet Kadri
• Siddique Imran
• Patel Nayana Singh

Classifications

• G06F2209/506

  Constraint · CPC title

• G06F2209/501

  Performance criteria · CPC title

• G06F9/5011

  the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals · CPC title

• H04L43/045

  for graphical visualisation of monitoring data · CPC title

• H04L43/08

  Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters · CPC title