US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 31 for "Performance-based public cloud selection for a hybrid cloud environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,866, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Performance-based public cloud selection for a hybrid cloud environment" was invented by David W. Chang (Milpitas, Calif.) and Rakesh M. Pathak (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid cloud solution for securely extending a private cloud or network to a public cloud can be enhanced with tools for evaluating the resources offered by multiple public cloud providers. In an example embodiment, a public cloud evaluation system can be used to create a virtual machine (VM) in a public cloud to serve the function of a public cloud evaluatio...