Technology major IBM (News - Alert) announced it has patented a technique that uses automated analytics to optimize cloud data center allocation.
The technology allocates cloud computing data center resources based on an automated analysis of the most effective use of assets, IBM said.
Cloud service providers benefit from the IBM technology as it leads to improved performance and cost-savings over inefficient, one-size-fits-all approaches to cloud data center management. Today’s cloud services are delivered as pre-packaged models and often don’t meet client needs and budget requirements.
IBM, which invests more than $6 billion annually in R&D, has topped the list of U.S. patent recipients for 20 consecutive years.
“Our patented invention will help service providers increase performance, improve customer service and realize cost benefits,” said Yu Deng, IBM Master Inventor and co-inventor on the patent.
The inventions are designed to address challenges in large complex data centers and foster a new era of cloud innovation,” Deng added. “IBM’s cloud data center management invention will address the complexity of deploying optimal cloud environments, while making it easier and more affordable to offer new solutions and services to clients.”
IBM’s solution fosters a new era of cloud innovation, as it will automatically allot cloud resources and provision services to meet the requirements of each client instead of offering the same, inflexible solution to every client, which unnecessarily increases costs for clients and those service providers, company officials said.
“This patented cloud computing invention illustrates how IBM's commitment to research and development will position the company to lead in the competitive cloud computing market,” said Dennis Quan, vice president of strategy, IBM cloud services.
“Our global team of cloud inventors is consistently uncovering and patenting new approaches to cloud computing that will deliver a competitive advantage to IBM and its clients,” Quan added.
Recently IBM also announced it has unveiled a set of new innovations from its Customer Experience Lab. The solution is designed to allow IBM research and business consultants to make customer-centric business transformations.
Edited by Ryan Sartor