Patent application number | Description | Published |
20160139902 | AUGMENTED DEPLOYMENT SPECIFICATION FOR SOFTWARE COMPLIANCE - A method of augmenting a deployment specification for a software application to determine a level of compliance of the application with a compliance characteristic, the deployment specification being suitable for identifying a resource required to execute the software application in a virtualised computing environment, the method comprising: receiving a definition of the compliance characteristic as a set of compliance criteria concerning the resource, wherein satisfaction of the compliance criteria during execution of the software application is suitable for determining the level of compliance of the software application with the compliance characteristic; selecting at least one software component from a library of components based on the definition of the compliance characteristic, the software component being operable to determine a state of satisfaction of at least a subset of the set of criteria for the compliance characteristic; and modifying the deployment specification to identify the at least one selected software component such that, on execution of the application, the level of compliance of the application with the compliance characteristic is determined. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139915 | EVALUATING SOFTWARE COMPLIANCE - A software compliance assessment apparatus for determining a level of compliance of a software application in execution in a virtualised computing environment, the apparatus comprising: an identifier component operable to identify resources instantiated for execution of the application; a retriever component operable to retrieve a compliance characteristic for the application, the compliance characteristic being retrieved based on the identified resources, and the compliance characteristic having associated a compliance criterion based on a formal parameter; a selector component operable to select a software component for providing an actual parameter corresponding to the formal parameter, the actual parameter being based on data concerning at least one of the resources; an evaluator component operable to evaluate the compliance criterion using the actual parameter; and a detector component operable to detect a change to one or more of the resources, wherein the identifier component, selector component and evaluator component are operable in response to a determination by the detector component that one or more resources is changed, wherein the selector component selects the software component based on an identification of one or more data items that the software component is operable to provide. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139938 | ENFORCING SOFTWARE COMPLIANCE - An apparatus for enforcing a compliance requirement for a software application in execution in a virtualised computing environment, the apparatus comprising: an identifier component operable to identify a resource instantiated for execution of the application; a retriever component operable to retrieve a compliance characteristic for the application, the compliance characteristic being retrieved based on the identified resource and having associated a compliance criterion based on a formal parameter, the compliance criterion defining a set of compliant resource states; a first selector component operable to select a software component for providing an actual parameter corresponding to the formal parameter, the actual parameter being based on data concerning the resource; an evaluator component operable to evaluate the compliance criterion using the actual parameter; an application modifier component operable to, in response to a determination that the resource is outside the set of compliant resource states, the determination being based on the evaluation of the compliance criterion, modify the software application to a modified software application having associated a resource with a state belonging to the set of compliant resource states; and a detector component operable to detect a change to one or more of the resources, wherein the identifier component, selector component and evaluator component are operable in response to a determination by the detector component that one or more resources is changed, and wherein the selector selects the software component based on an identification of one or more data items that the software component is operable to provide. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140209 | CATEGORISING SOFTWARE APPLICATION STATE - A method for categorising a state of operation of a software application in execution in a virtualised computing environment, the application having associated a set of software components being operable to access data associated with the application, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a set of software application state definitions, each state definition including a definition of an application characteristic having associated criteria based on one or more formal parameters; identifying a set of hypothetical states for the application from the set of state definitions based on the data, wherein the data is used to formulate a set of one or more actual parameters corresponding to formal parameters for criteria associated with one or more of the states in the set of hypothetical states; for each of the states in the set of hypothetical states, in response to a determination that criteria associated with a current state is fully evaluable in the negative, removing the current state from the set of hypothetical states; selecting a candidate state from the set of hypothetical states based on a level of satisfaction of criteria associated with each state in the set of hypothetical states, the candidate state having associated one or more absent formal parameters for which no actual parameter is included in the set of actual parameters; and determining if a level of satisfaction of criteria associated with the candidate state fails to meet a threshold level of satisfaction, and in response to the determination undertaking the steps of: a) adjusting the set of software components such that the set of software components is operable to obtain an improved set of actual parameters associated with the application, the improved set of actual parameters including at least one actual parameter corresponding to an absent formal parameter; and b) repeating the removing, selecting and determining steps. | 05-19-2016 |