Patent ID: 9152485
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for evaluating degradation of service risk for a service provided by at least one digital data processing device, comprising: recording in a data processing system a service requirements specification for a service, said service being a service provided by a set of digital data processing resources on behalf of at least one client, said service requirements specification specifying a plurality of digital data processing resources required to provide said service; recording in a data processing system a configuration specification, said configuration specification specifying a configuration of digital data processing resources of a service provider available to provide said service on behalf of said at least one client, said configuration specification being independent of said service requirements specification; automatically accessing, with a data processing system, reliability data for digital data resources specified in said configuration specification; using said service requirements specification, said configuration specification, and said resource reliability data to automatically determine, with a data processing system, a risk of degradation of the service specified in said service requirements specification when provided by the configuration of digital data processing resources specified in said configuration specification, the risk of degradation of the service being a risk that less than all of the plurality of digital data processing resources specified in said service requirements specification will be available to provide the service; and providing results of said using said service requirements specification, said configuration specification, and said resource reliability data to automatically determine a risk of degradation of the service to a user.