Patent ID: 8688768
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to handle a hand-off in a cloud computing environment, the method comprising: identifying, at a cloud governance module of a server device, a plurality of applications executing on a plurality of servers belonging to a plurality of cloud computing service providers; determining, at the cloud governance module, based upon information in a policy module, to hand-off an execution of at least one identified application executing on a first cloud computing service provider platform to a second cloud computing service provider; determining, at the cloud governance module, whether the second cloud computing service provider satisfies a governance policy associated with the at least one identified application; and handing-off, using the cloud governance module, the execution of the at least one identified application to a second cloud computing provider platform based upon the second cloud computing provider being compliant with the governance policy associated with the at least one identified application, wherein the handing-off comprises transferring a current state associated with the execution of the at least one identified application to the second cloud computing service platform.