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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ali Anwar, Blaksburg, VA (US);
Salman A. Baset, New York, NY (US);
Andrzej P. Kochut, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Hui Lei, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Anca Sailer, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Alla Segal, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to support service management in cloud computing networks. For example, a method for managing a computing platform includes provisioning a plurality of virtual machines across a plurality of computing nodes of a computing platform, wherein the provisioned virtual machines are configured to execute service workloads to provide one or more services to customers, and utilizing one or more of the provisioned virtual machines which execute the service workloads to further perform service management operations for managing the computing platform. The service management operations for managing the computing platform include, e.g., mediation and rating operations for revenue management of the computing platform.