Patent ID: 8805951

Claim:
A method of executing an application program in a public cloud network without moving a private dataset of the application program from private data storage to the public cloud network, the method comprising a data processor of a cloud computing server in the public cloud network executing computer instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium of the cloud computing server to perform the steps of: a) loading a virtual machine onto the non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the virtual machine including the application program, and the non-transitory computer readable storage medium also storing a cloud computing storage remote access program layer for remote access over the public cloud network to the private dataset; and b) executing the application program with the data processor to access data blocks of the private dataset by invoking the cloud computing remote access layer, and in response to the execution of the application program invoking the cloud computing remote access layer, executing the cloud computing remote access layer to fetch the data blocks from the private dataset by remote access over the public cloud network to the private dataset, so that the execution of the application program with the data processor accesses the data blocks of the private dataset without waiting for the entire application dataset to be transferred to the public cloud network, and the data blocks of the private dataset are transferred from the private dataset to the cloud computing server only when the data blocks of the private dataset are accessed by the execution of the application program; which further includes a user agent computer copying a Virtual Machine Disk Format file including the virtual machine to the cloud computing server, the user agent computer authorizing a storage appliance to permit remote access of the cloud computing server to the private dataset in the private data storage, the user agent computer sending a job request to the cloud computing server, the data processor of the cloud computing server executing the application program in response to the job request, and the cloud computing server deleting the virtual machine and any local copies of data of the private dataset upon completion of the execution of the application program in response to the job request.