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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2008
John M. Garrison, Austin, TX (US);
Kent F. Hayes, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Brian D. Jeffrey, Cary, NC (US);
Yih-shin Tan, Raleigh, NC (US);
John M. Garrison, Austin, TX (US);
Kent F. Hayes, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Brian D. Jeffrey, Cary, NC (US);
Yih-Shin Tan, Raleigh, NC (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of allocating costs for resource usage in a distributed computing environment includes creating a standardized template for deploying a desired functionality within the distributed computing environment; the standardized template defining computing resources of the distributed computing environment needed to support the desired functionality, associating fixed costs with the computing resources, and calculating a total allocated cost associated with the standardized template by referencing the fixed costs. A system of allocating costs for resource usage in a distributed computing environment includes a standardized template for deploying a desired functionality within the distributed computing environment, the standardized template defining a plurality of interconnected computing resources, a fixed cost associated with each of the plurality of interconnected computing resources, and a software application configured to sum the fixed costs to produce a total cost for deploying the desired functionality.