Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel method of deploying a secondary cluster of one or more service machines to a public secondary cloud to provide a service to supplement a primary cluster of service machines that provide the service in a primary cloud. The method receives a set of one or more user-defined criteria to use to deploy the secondary cluster in the public secondary cloud. After receiving the set of user-defined criteria, the method detects that the secondary cluster is needed to supplement the primary cluster. The method retrieves previously collected data about different public clouds that are candidates for the deployment of the secondary cluster. Based on the set of user-defined criteria, the method analyzes the previously collected data to select for the deployment a particular candidate public cloud as the public secondary cloud. Then, the method deploys the secondary cluster in the selected particular public cloud.

Abstract: An apparatus for managing data in a network is provided. The apparatus includes a memory, and a processor configured to identify a first leader device and a second leader device in a swarm comprising a plurality of devices based device parameters, receive a request for downloading data, download, as the first leader device, the data from a content device in response to the request, store the downloaded data to the memory, transmit the data to the second leader device, and divide the swarm into a first sub swarm comprising the first leader device and a second sub swarm comprising the second leader device.

Abstract: An apparatus for managing data in a network is provided. The apparatus includes a memory, and a processor configured to identify a first leader device and a second leader device in a swarm comprising a plurality of devices based device parameters, receive a request for downloading data, download, as the first leader device, the data from a content device in response to the request, store the downloaded data to the memory, transmit the data to the second leader device, and divide the swarm into a first sub swarm comprising the first leader device and a second sub swarm comprising the second leader device.