Patent ID: 9395967
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A multi-tenant data processing system configured for workload deployment density management for a multi-stage computing architecture, the system comprising: a host computing system comprising multiple different host computers, each with memory and at least one processor; a cloud computing environment defined by a multiplicity of computing nodes executing within the host computing system, each of the nodes providing an operating system configured to support the operation of different instances of different applications; a multi-tenant computing environment configured to utilize the computing nodes of the cloud computing environment on behalf of different tenants; and, a cloud node agent coupled to the multi-tenant computing environment, the agent comprising program code enabled upon execution in the host computing system to receive different requests from different ones of the tenants to deploy respectively different application instances of respectively different computer programs into different ones of the nodes, to determine from each request an associated stage of a software lifecycle for a corresponding one of the application instances, and to deploy each of the application instances into a particular one of the nodes depending upon an associated stage of each of the application instances so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle.