International Business Machines Corporation

Benjamin Hicks Briggs

Ori Pomerantz

Louis Thomas Fuka

Orcun Atakan

Frank C Breslau

A database contains available cloud environments to which a virtual image workload may be deployed. The database includes ratings for each available cloud option, such as cost, distance, reliability, which workloads that environment may handle. A table of attributes and weights is used to create a rating of the requested deployment. This rating determines where the image is deployed. The invention discloses techniques for gathering additional information from the user about the virtual image workload to be deployed. A mapping algorithm applies the attributes and weights to the gathered information to create a rating for the deployment. An algorithm is then used to determine to which available cloud environment the workload will be deployed.

System of geographic migration of workloads between private and public clouds

The illustrative embodiments provide a method, computer program product, and apparatus for managing collectively sensitive data. Collectively sensitive data is divided into a first partition for reassembly data, a second partition of the collectively sensitive data, and a third partition of the collectively sensitive data. Each of the second partition and the third partition are collectively nonsensitive in isolation. The first partition is stored in a translation table in a secure database. The translation table is configured for use in assembling collectively sensitive data from the second partition and the third partition. The second partition of the collectively sensitive data is stored in a first database associated with a first cloud computing environment. The third partition of collectively sensitive data is stored in a second database associated with a second cloud computing environment.

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