Patent ID: 8639791
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method implemented and residing within a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that is executed by one or more processors of a network to perform the method, comprising: acquiring geographical data, attribute data, and any previously obtained usage metric data for a cloud processing environment; evaluating the geographical data, the attribute data, and the previously obtained usage metric data to create a plan for testing the cloud processing environment with test data, the cloud processing environment when tested with the test data producing new usage metric data, the geographic data representing geographic positions for endpoint connections of the cloud processing environment, the attribute data representing configuration settings for resources of the cloud processing environment, licensing restrictions for those resources, policy identifiers for policies to enforce against the resources, and resource identifiers for the resources, the endpoint connections representing routers, gateways, and proxies for the cloud processing environment; and recording a state or updating an existing state of the cloud processing environment when the cloud processing environment is tested with the test data, the state or the updated existing state representing an association between the geographical data, the attribute data, the previously obtained usage metric data, and the new usage metric data, the state or the updated existing state subsequently used to make real-time or dynamic decisions for services associated with the cloud processing environment and the state or the updated state detailing how messages and packets traveling between processes, storage, and end users of the cloud processing environment are affected, monitored, and altered.