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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2013
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Mahesh Kannan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abhijit Kumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rajiv Mordani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Carla Mott, Mountain View, CA (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for elasticity management of services for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a cloud platform enables provisioning of enterprise software applications within a cloud environment, including packaging enterprise applications as service definition packages (SDP), and instantiating the services using service management engines (SME). In an embodiment, an elasticity manager can be used to determine the health of the services, and to take appropriate actions, including detecting events, issuing alerts and/or notifying the orchestration engine to manage the service lifecycle, e.g., to respond to an increased demand for particular services.