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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2012
Kirk A. Beaty, Goldens Bridge, NY (US);
John G. Buckley, Cork, IE;
Yasuharu Katsuno, Chigasaki, JP;
Ashish Kundu, Elmsford, NY (US);
Vijay K. Naik, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Julia L. O'halloran, Cork, IE;
Kirk A. Beaty, Goldens Bridge, NY (US);
John G. Buckley, Cork, IE;
Yasuharu Katsuno, Chigasaki, JP;
Ashish Kundu, Elmsford, NY (US);
Vijay K. Naik, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Julia L. O'Halloran, Cork, IE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An embodiment is directed to a hybrid cloud environment wherein a user of cloud computing services is disposed to consume cloud provided services delivered by each of a plurality of cloud computing service providers. Specified event data is received at an MCS component, wherein the event data pertains to metering events related to consumed services delivered by one or more cloud service providers. Event data includes event data furnished by one or more entities that actively monitor metering events at one or more local or remote cloud service provider locations. Event data is sent from the MCS component to a metering system, and the metering system generates reports from the event data that contains usage information on services provided by one or more cloud service providers, wherein information for a provider specifies amounts and quality of each type of service delivered to users by the provider.