Disaster recovery in a networked computing environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104613-B2
Application number	US-201414215255-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 17, 2014
Priority date	Nov 9, 2010
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

In general, embodiments of the present invention provide a DR solution for a networked computing environment such as a cloud computing environment. Specifically, a customer or the like can select a disaster recovery provider from a pool (at least one) of disaster recovery providers using a customer interface to a DR portal. Similarly, using the interface and DR portal, the customer can then submit a request for DR to be performed for a set (at least one) of applications. The customer will then also submit (via the interface and DR portal) DR information. This information can include, among other things, a set of application images, a set of application files, a set of recovery requirements, a designation of one or more specific (e.g., application) components for which DR is desired, dump file(s), database file(s), etc. Using the DR information, the DR provider will then generate and conduct a set of DR tests and provide the results to the customer via the DR portal and interface. In one embodiment, a temporary DR environment can be created (e.g., by the DR provider or the customer) in which the DR tests are conducted.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for providing disaster recovery in a networked computing environment, comprising:
receiving, at a portal, a selection of a first disaster recovery provider from a first customer through a first user interface, the selection being made from a pool of disaster recovery providers;
receiving, at the portal, a request from the first customer, through the first user interface, for disaster recovery to be performed for a set of applications;
receiving,…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Radhakrishnan Rajesh

Classifications

• G06F11/0709 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/0793

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L41/0654

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F11/1412 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L69/40

  Electricity · mapped topic