Patent ID: 8209357
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying an application for potential porting from a first computing environment to a second computing environment associated with a client device, wherein the first computing environment comprises one of a pod environment or a pool environment and the second computing environment comprises another of the pod environment or the pool environment; sending, to the client device, two or more sets of questions related to two or more different question-types for porting the identified application; receiving answers to at least some of the two or more sets of questions from the client device; obtaining a respective score for each of the two or more different question-types based on the answers; determining a particular priority classification, of a plurality of priority classifications for porting candidate applications from the first computing environment to the second computing environment, based on the respective scores relative to a parameter associated with each of the two or more different question-types; and sending results of the determination to the client device.