Policy-based scaling of computing resources in a networked computing environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8966085-B2
Application number	US-201213343293-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 4, 2012
Priority date	Jan 4, 2012
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for policy-driven (e.g., price-sensitive) scaling of computing resources in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). In a typical embodiment, a workload request for a customer will be received and a set of computing resources available to process the workload request will be identified. It will then be determined whether the set of computing resources are sufficient to process the workload request. If the set of computing resources are under-allocated (or are over-allocated), a resource scaling policy may be accessed. The set of computing resources may then be scaled based on the resource scaling policy, so that the workload request can be efficiently processed while maintaining compliance with the resource scaling policy.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for scaling computing resources in a networked cloud computing environment, comprising:
receiving a workload request, for storage resources, in a computer memory medium for a customer;
identifying a set of computing resources, comprising a pool of storage units, available in the networked cloud computing environment to process the workload request, the networked cloud computing environment comprising a shared pool of configura…

Assignees

• Abuelsaad Kelly
• Deluca Lisa Seacat
• Jang Soobaek
• IBM

Inventors

• Abuelsaad Kelly
• Deluca Lisa Seacat
• Jang Soobaek

Classifications

• H04L47/70

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F9/5077

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/5072

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q10/06315 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic