Patent ID: 8903996

Claim:
A cloud computing information system for operating cloud computing services in a cloud computing network, the cloud computing information system comprising: a processor; a memory; a first collection unit adapted for collecting node status information, indicative of a configuration of a cloud computing node, from the cloud computing node, wherein the cloud computing node is connected to the cloud computing network; a second collection unit adapted for collecting cloud service status information indicative of an attribute of a cloud computing service being executed in the cloud computing node; a third collection unit adapted for collecting environmental data sets from a plurality of computing systems, each environmental data set corresponding to attribute values of one of the plurality of computing systems, wherein the computing systems are connected to a network which is connected to the cloud computing network; a group building unit adapted for building a group of computing systems, wherein the group consists of computing systems of the plurality of computing systems with at least one identical attribute value; a storage unit adapted for storing the node status information, the cloud service status information, the environmental data sets, and the identical attribute value of the group in a database; a selection unit adapted for selecting characteristic data out of the node status information, the cloud service status information and the environmental data sets in the database and sending the characteristic data over the cloud computing network and the network to the one computing system of the plurality of computing systems having requested the characteristic data, in response to a request for characteristic data from one computing system of the group; and determining a number of cloud computing nodes executing a predefined version of a predefined software component, specified in configuration data of the node software stack, as part of a cloud computing service for a computing system of the group, wherein if the number exceeds a specified trigger level and if an actual version of the predefined software component is lower than the predefined version, installing the predefined version of the predefined software component on a cloud computing node, executing a cloud computing service for the computing system of the group for which the specified trigger level is defined.