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Application US20130311551
Published 2013-11-21
Edge-based Resource Spin-up For Cloud Computing
Aspects of the present invention include distributing new resources closer to end-users which are making increased demands by spinning-up additional virtualized instances (as part of a cloud provisioning) within servers that are physically near to the network equipment (i.e., web servers, switches, routers, load balancers) that are receiving the requests.
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- 1. A method of implementing edge-based cloud computing including an edge server that communicates with end users and arranges application resources, the method comprising:
determining an edge server from a plurality of geographically distributed edge servers within a cloud to use to communicate with a user device based on an efficiency threshold, wherein a content delivery network comprises the plurality of geographically distributed edge servers; receiving, at the determined edge server, an application service request from a user device; analyzing the application service request to gather metrics about historical responses provided by applications in each of a plurality of clouds; based on the gathered metrics, determining a cloud of the plurality of clouds to which to direct the application service request; forwarding the application service request to a compute platform in the determined cloud; capturing a response to the application service request from the determined cloud; and responding to the application service request.
