System, method, and tangible computer-readable storage media are disclosed for providing a brokering service for compute resources The method includes, at a brokering service, polling a group of separately administered compute environments to identify resource capabilities and information, each compute resource environment including the group of managed nodes for processing workload, receiving a request for compute resources at the brokering service system, the request for compute resources being associated with a service level agreement (SLA) and based on the resource capabilities across the group of compute resource environments, selecting compute resources in one or more of the group of compute resource environments The brokering service system receives workload associated with the request and communicates the workload to the selected resources for processing The brokering services system can aggregate resources for multiple cloud service providers and act as an advocate for or a guarantor of the SLA associated with the workload

System and method of brokering cloud computing resources

An on-demand compute environment comprises a plurality of nodes within an on-demand compute environment available for provisioning and a slave management module operating on a dedicated node within the on-demand compute environment, wherein upon instructions from a master management module at a local compute environment, the slave management module modifies at least one node of the plurality of nodes.

On-demand compute environment

In one example, an application development framework system comprises a microservice platform for developing and executing a plurality of microservices, wherein each microservice of the microservices comprises an independently-deployable service configured to execute one or more functions to fulfill an interface contract for an interface for the microservice; and an orchestration platform for developing and executing an orchestrator to orchestrate the microservices to execute an interconnection platform for a cloud-based services exchange configured to interconnect, using one or more virtual circuits, customers of the cloud-based services exchange.

Microservice-based application development framework

An example method for discovering and grouping application endpoints in a network environment is provided and includes discovering endpoints communicating in a network environment, calculating affinity between the discovered endpoints, and grouping the endpoints into separate endpoint groups (EPGs) according to the calculated affinity, each EPG comprising a logical grouping of similar endpoints for applying common forwarding and policy logic according to logical application boundaries. In specific embodiments, the affinity includes a weighted average of network affinity, compute affinity and user specified affinity.

Discovering and grouping application endpoints in a network environment

In one example, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect a customer of the cloud-based services exchange to one or more cloud service providers, the plurality of interconnection assets including a virtual circuit by which the customer accesses a cloud service from the one or more cloud service providers; and an orchestration engine configured to modify the plurality of interconnection assets.

Interconnection platform for real-time configuration and management of a cloud-based services exchange

A technique for evaluating service level agreement (SLA) violations occurring in a computing system with agreed-upon model for exemptions is provided. The technique includes storing in a memory a model of the SLA and identifying occurrence of an SLA violation in a computing system that is providing services under the SLA. Based on the stored model, the technique further determines if the SLA violation is exempted from a penalty.

Evaluating Service Level Agreement Violations

Catalogs that describe respective offerings for fulfillment by respective applications, are aggregated to form an aggregate catalog. A request relating to at least one of the offerings is received based on content presented from the aggregate catalog. In response to the request, an orchestrated execution of an end-to-end process is performed to fulfill the request relating to the at least one offering, the executing of the end-to-end process comprising calling at least one of the applications.

Fulfilling a request based on catalog aggregation and orchestrated execution of an end-to-end process

An orchestrator executes an end-to-end process across applications. The executing of the end-to-end process by the orchestrator comprises executing flow logic by the orchestrator, the flow logic according to a data model defining arguments to include in interactions between the orchestrator and each of the applications. A message broker exchanges information among the orchestrator and the applications.

Execution of end-to-end-processes across applications

A method for minimizing risk of a service level agreement (SLA) is provided. Such a method can include creating a risk profile for a key performance indicator based on a collection of data, determining a service level objective (SLO) cost for a SLO by correlating the SLO with the risk profile, and computing a cost of a SLA by analyzing the SLO cost for the SLO associated with the SLA.

Service Level Agreement Negotiation and Associated Methods

A representation of functions and features associated with respective functions is received, the representation being according to a model. Features of a plurality of the products are compared to the features of the functions. Based on the comparing, a check is made for an existence of a gap of at least one of the plurality of products relating to omission of a feature, an existence of an overlap of features between multiple products of the plurality of products, and an existence of a divergence in timings of release between dependent products of the plurality of products.

Lars Rossen

Papers

Evaluating Service Level Agreement Violations

Fulfilling a request based on catalog aggregation and orchestrated execution of an end-to-end process

Execution of end-to-end-processes across applications

Service Level Agreement Negotiation and Associated Methods

Product portfolio rationalization