Self-terminating or self-shelving virtual machines and workloads

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10394588
APP PUB NO 20170192809A1
SERIAL NO

15040809

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Methods comprise receiving a request to perform a predefined operation on at least one of a virtual machine and a workload executing on a host in a first cloud computing environment, identifying a set of credentials to access the first cloud computing environment, and initiating performance of the predefined operation on the at least one of the virtual machine and the workload, wherein the predefined operation comprises at least one of: (i) deleting, and (ii) shelving the at least one of the virtual machine and the workload.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kaufer, Steven R Rochester, US 2 5
Matzek, Samuel D Rochester, US 10 83

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