James Michael Ferris

Methods and systems for providing on-demand cloud computing environments

Monitoring cloud computing environments

Methods and systems for building custom appliances in a cloud-based network

Methods and systems for providing on-demand cloud computing environments

Provisioning cloud resources

Matching resources associated with a virtual machine to offered resources

Monitoring cloud computing environments

Provisioning cloud resources

Detecting events in cloud computing environments and performing actions upon occurrence of the events

Determining consistencies in staged replication data for data migration in cloud based networks

Metering software infrastructure in a cloud computing environment

OFFERING ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS DURING CONVERSION OF STANDARD SOFTWARE LICENSES FOR USE IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

Multiple cloud marketplace aggregation

Cross-cloud computing resource usage tracking

Managing multi-level service level agreements in cloud-based networks

Load balancing in cloud-based networks

Managing an application programming interface in a collaboration space

Metering software infrastructure in a cloud computing environment

Management of secure data in cloud-based network

Management of virtual appliances in cloud-based network

Provisioning cloud resources in view of weighted importance indicators

Generating cloud deployment targets based on predictive workload estimation

Systems and methods for cloud data deployment based on preferential and/or existing subscription relationships

Data compliance management associated with cloud migration events

Generating optimized host placement of data payload in cloud-based storage network

Determining consistencies in staged replication data to improve data migration efficiency in cloud based networks

METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACT AND TRANSPORT DATA ASSOCIATED WITH WORKLOAD MIGRATIONS TO CLOUD NETWORKS

Systems and methods for management of virtual appliances in cloud-based network

Migrating data among cloud-based storage networks via a data distribution service

Generating a selection of cloud data distribution service from alternative providers for staging data to host clouds

Staged data migration between data sources and cloud-based storage network

Systems and methods for de-populating cloud data store

Establishing upload channels to a cloud data distribution service

Migrating subscribed services from a set of clouds to a second set of clouds

Brokering optimized resource supply costs in host cloud-based network using predictive workloads

Migrating subscribed services in a cloud deployment

Migrating virtual machine operations

Indentifying service dependencies in a cloud deployment

Combinatorial optimization of multiple resources across a set of cloud-based networks

Systems and methods for identifying usage histories for producing optimized cloud utilization

Systems and methods for migrating software modules into one or more clouds

Matching a usage history to a new cloud

Systems and methods for management of secure data in cloud-based network

Generating cross-mapping of vendor software in a cloud computing environment

Delivery of user-controlled resources in cloud environments via a resource specification language wrapper

Systems and methods for cross-vendor mapping service in cloud networks

Managing multi-level service level agreements in cloud-based network

Systems and methods for exporting usage history data as input to a management platform of a target cloud-based network

Methods and systems for cloud deployment analysis featuring relative cloud resource importance

Cross-cloud vendor mapping service in cloud marketplace

Generating customized build options for cloud deployment matching usage profile against cloud infrastructure options

Aggregate monitoring of utilization data for vendor products in cloud networks

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CROSS-CLOUD COMPUTING APPLIANCES

Methods and systems for matching resource requests with cloud computing environments

Methods and systems for providing deployment architectures in cloud computing environments

Converting standard software licenses for use in cloud computing environments

Offering additional license terms during conversion of standard software licenses for use in cloud computing environments

Cloud-based utilization of software entitlements

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OR A USAGE MANAGER FOR CROSS-CLOUD APPLIANCES

Systems and methods for managing a software subscription in a cloud network

Monitoring cloud computing environments

Detecting events in cloud computing environments and performing actions upon occurrence of the events

Verifying software license compliance in cloud computing environments

Service aggregation using graduated service levels in a cloud network

Generating a software license knowledge base for verifying software license compliance in cloud computing environments

Metering software infrastructure in a cloud computing environment

Methods and systems for pricing software infrastructure for a cloud computing environment

Matching resources associated with a virtual machine to offered resources

Managing application programming interfaces in a collaboration space

Providing user-controlled resources for cloud computing environments

Communicating with third party resources in cloud computing environment

Extending security platforms to cloud-based networks

Securing appliances for use in a cloud computing environment

Providing access control to user-controlled resources in a cloud computing environment

On-demand cloud computing environments

Systems and methods for managing a collaboration space having application hosting capabilities

Embedding a cloud-based resource request in a specification language wrapper

Multiple cloud marketplace aggregation

Service level backup using re-cloud network

Adjusting resource usage for cloud-based networks

Systems and methods for management of secure data in cloud-based network

Migration of a virtual machine from a first cloud computing environment to a second cloud computing environment in response to a resource or services in the second cloud computing environment becoming available

Managing subscriptions for cloud-based virtual machines

Systems and methods for identification and management of cloud-based virtual machines

Providing a hosted appliance and migrating the appliance to an on-premise environment

Providing a demo appliance and migrating the demo appliance to a production appliance

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOFTWARE TEST MANAGEMENT IN CLOUD-BASED NETWORK

Load balancing in cloud-based networks

Methods and systems for user identity management in cloud-based networks

Systems and methods for management of virtual appliances in cloud-based network

Building custom appliances in a cloud-based network

Self-management of virtual machines in cloud-based networks