Patent ID: 8291056
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for analyzing one or more policies applicable to a plurality of computing sites that host respective applications and process respective workloads in a distributed computing network, said method comprising: representing said distributed computing network, in its entirety, as a state transition model, wherein said state transition model is constructed in accordance with at least one model representing characteristics of said plurality of computing sites, where said at least one model includes at least one of: a site model, a workload model, a workload state model, a site state model, a policy model, an event model, or a cost model, and wherein said representing comprises: superimposing a queuing network model on said state transition model, wherein said superimposing said queuing network comprises: identifying an effect of said one or more policies on a performance of said distributed computing network in accordance with a solution to said queuing network model, wherein at least one of: the representing, the superimposing, or the identifying is performed using a processor.