Patent Document ID: 8554885
Application ID: 12872293
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method stored as executable instructions 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 a state for a cloud processing environment having been tested with test data, the state representing an association between geographical data for the cloud processing environment, attribute data for the cloud processing environment, and previously obtained metric usage data acquired from testing the cloud processing environment via the test data; mining news feeds for natural event data and political event data, and assigning a code for each natural event and for each political event mined, and mapping each code to a specific event type and a specific policy, each policy defining automated actions to perform based on the specific event type; updating the state with the natural event data and the political event data linked to the geographical data from the mining of the news feeds, the natural event data and the political event data are also linked with particular resources of the cloud processing environment and a geographical location for the geographical data based on the actions defined in a given policy that drives relationships among the political event data, the natural event data, the geographical location, and the particular resources; and using the updated state to make real-time decisions for services associated with the cloud processing environment.