Use of snapshots to reduce risk in migration to a standard virtualized environment

V Bala, K Bhattacharya, T Diethelm… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
During a process of migrating a source system into a standardized virtual environment,
virtual machine instances of the source system executing in a hypervisor are snapshotted as …

Migration to managed clouds

K Bhattacharya, F Graf, MA Markley… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
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 …

Replacing virtual machine disks

MA Bonilla, F Graf, D Kohen, B Peterson… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
At least one target virtual disk descriptor that describes at least one virtual disk associated
with an existing target virtual machine in a target virtualized environment is merged with at …

Management infrastructure analysis for cloud migration

MA Markley, AM Paradkar, VV Parisa… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
In a source computing system having a source management infrastructure, at least one
source infrastructure management component is discovered. A description of a target cloud …

Dynamically building a set of compute nodes to host the user's workload

RK Ashok, RF Brabson, HE Hockett… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
A method, system and computer program product for dynamically building a set of compute
nodes to host a user's workload. An administrative server receives workload definitions that …

Virtual machine migration tool

R Fries, A Sanghvi - US Patent 9,176,773, 2015 - Google Patents
Tools and techniques for migrating applications to compute clouds are described herein. A
tool may be used to migrate any arbitrary application to a specific implementation of a …

Dynamically building a set of compute nodes to host the user's workload

RK Ashok, RF Brabson, HE Hockett… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
US8930543B2 - Dynamically building a set of compute nodes to host the user's workload -
Google Patents US8930543B2 - Dynamically building a set of compute nodes to host the user's …

Adjustment to managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud standard

R Ananthanarayanan, K Bhattacharya, F Graf… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
An arbitrary customer instance is transferred from a customer environment to a target
managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image. An image …

Methods and systems for secure storage segmentation based on security context in a virtual environment

D Banerjee - US Patent 9,185,114, 2015 - Google Patents
US9185114B2 - Methods and systems for secure storage segmentation based on security
context in a virtual environment - Google Patents US9185114B2 - Methods and systems for …

System of geographic migration of workloads between private and public clouds

O Pomerantz, BH Briggs, LT Fuka, O Atakan - US Patent 9,705,970, 2017 - Google Patents
A database contains available cloud environments to which a virtual image workload may
be deployed. The database includes ratings for each available cloud option, such as cost …