Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120243795 | SCALABLE IMAGE DISTRIBUTION IN VIRTUALIZED SERVER ENVIRONMENTS - A method and system include replicating an image representing a sequence of bytes on a local storage medium on a target device by determining a similarity between images and reconstructing a new image using equivalent blocks from one or more similar images locally available on the target device or available on donor devices to reduce network link usage and transfer time in replicating the image. | 09-27-2012 |
20130004089 | SCALABLE IMAGE DISTRIBUTION IN VIRTUALIZED SERVER ENVIRONMENTS - A method and system include replicating an image representing a sequence of bytes on a local storage medium on a target device by determining a similarity between images and reconstructing a new image using equivalent blocks from one or more similar images locally available on the target device or available on donor devices to reduce network link usage and transfer time in replicating the image. | 01-03-2013 |
20130060606 | EFFICIENT CONTRACTING WITH ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION - Techniques include accessing predetermined utility of customers based on customer types and qualities. The qualities are based at least on previously identified non-functional characteristics of services that influence decisions of the customers in buying the services from a service provider. Based at least on the accessed predetermining utility, quality-price pairs are determined to create a predetermined amount of profit for the service provider assuming the service provider offers the services to a customer having the customer type at a level of quality corresponding to an associated one of the qualities in a pair and for the corresponding price in the pair. Each quality in the pairs corresponds to one of the customer types. Determining the price-quality pairs further includes mapping one or more of the service-related characteristics to one or more information technology resources in response to the service-related characteristic being dependent on one or more other service-related characteristics. | 03-07-2013 |
20130132971 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STREAMLINED VIRTUAL MACHINE DESKTOP DISPLAY - A shared resource system, method of updating client displays and computer program products therefor. At least one client device locally displays activity with resources shared with the client device. A management system on provider computers that is providing resources shared by the client devices selectively generates prioritized display updates. The management system provides updates to respective client devices according to update priority. Updates may also be ordered for network load balancing. | 05-23-2013 |
20130219211 | Elastic Cloud-Driven Task Execution - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for cloud-driven application execution. The method includes determining a plurality of attributes of a failed application, wherein the plurality of attributes comprises at least one policy context attribute and at least one context attribute, correlating each of the plurality of attributes to at least one alternative asset, wherein the at least one alternative asset is a part of an environment on which the failed application can be executed, using the plurality of attributes correlated to the at least one alternative asset to identify an alternative asset set of alternative assets, wherein the alternative asset set is capable of enabling an alternative environment on which to execute the failed application, and provisioning the alternative assets in the alternative asset set from at least one cloud network to create the alternative environment on which the failed application is executed. | 08-22-2013 |
20140019963 | CO-LOCATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH NESTED VIRTUALIZATION - Co-locating a virtual machine with nested virtualization, in one aspect, may comprise receiving a list of one or more virtual machine instances to co-locate with associated configuration information. A parent virtual machine instance may be identified to host the one or more virtual machine instances. Virtual machine images associated with the one or more virtual machine instances may be consolidated. A composite parent virtual machine image may be created based on the consolidated virtual machine images and the parent virtual machine instance. The parent virtual machine instance may be configured to accommodate for capacity requirement of the one or more child virtual machine instances. The parent virtual machine instance may be started on a processor via the composite parent virtual machine image. The one or more virtual machine instances may be started within the parent virtual machine instance as one or more child virtual machine instances. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019968 | CO-LOCATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH NESTED VIRTUALIZATION - Co-locating a virtual machine with nested virtualization, in one aspect, may comprise receiving a list of one or more virtual machine instances to co-locate with associated configuration information. A parent virtual machine instance may be identified to host the one or more virtual machine instances. Virtual machine images associated with the one or more virtual machine instances may be consolidated. A composite parent virtual machine image may be created based on the consolidated virtual machine images and the parent virtual machine instance. The parent virtual machine instance may be configured to accommodate for capacity requirement of the one or more child virtual machine instances. The parent virtual machine instance may be started on a processor via the composite parent virtual machine image. The one or more virtual machine instances may be started within the parent virtual machine instance as one or more child virtual machine instances. | 01-16-2014 |
20140040891 | SELECTING PROVISIONING TARGETS FOR NEW VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTANCES - One embodiment of a method for provisioning a new virtual machine instance based on the content of an image of the new virtual machine instance includes identifying, from among a plurality of host machines, the host machine having the highest percentage of the content available in local storage, and provisioning the new virtual machine instance on the host machine having the highest percentage of the content available in local storage. Another embodiment of a method for provisioning a new virtual machine instance based on an image of the new virtual machine instance includes constructing at least a portion of the image using data stored locally on a target machine hosting the new virtual machine instance, and completing the image using data obtained over a network from remote storage. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040893 | SELECTING PROVISIONING TARGETS FOR NEW VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTANCES - One embodiment of a system for provisioning a new virtual machine instance on a target host based on an image of the new virtual machine instance includes a local storage for storing images of virtual machine instances currently running on the target host and a virtual machine creator coupled to the local storage for constructing the image of the new virtual machine instance at least in part using the images of virtual machine instances currently running on the target host. | 02-06-2014 |
20140052768 | SYSTEM AND METHOD SUPPORTING APPLICATION SOLUTION COMPOSITION ON CLOUD - Disclosed is a method, computer-program product and a system to compose an application solution on a cloud-computing platform for a user. The method includes, in response to input from the user, selecting at least one predetermined template that includes a hardware and software instance of a data processing system that is implementable as an solution on a cloud platform; comparing the at least one selected template against a set of constraints; establishing an instance of a cloud based solution for the user based on the selected template; and validating the established cloud based solution against user-uploaded information such as software and workloads to ensure that the solution satisfies requirements of the user, such as both technical and financial requirements of the user. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD SUPPORTING APPLICATION SOLUTION COMPOSITION ON CLOUD - Disclosed is a method, computer-program product and a system to compose an application solution on a cloud-computing platform for a user. The method includes, in response to input from the user, selecting at least one predetermined template that includes a hardware and software instance of a data processing system that is implementable as an solution on a cloud platform; comparing the at least one selected template against a set of constraints; establishing an instance of a cloud based solution for the user based on the selected template; and validating the established cloud based solution against user-uploaded information such as software and workloads to ensure that the solution satisfies requirements of the user, such as both technical and financial requirements of the user. | 02-20-2014 |
20140074674 | TRACKING FOR ROYALTY DETERMINATION - A system including at least one memory having a plurality of individual contributions forming a compilation stored in the at least one memory; and at least one processor connected to the at least one memory, where the processor is configured to use provenance data associated with a catalog item to track an individual contribution in a compilation of contributions, where the compilation is stored in the at least one memory; and dynamically compute a royalty distribution for the individual contribution based, at least partially, upon at least one metric related to the contributions which form the compilation. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074676 | Tracking For Royalty Determination - A system including at least one memory having a plurality of individual contributions forming a compilation stored in the at least one memory; and at least one processor connected to the at least one memory. The processor is configured to identify at least one of the individual contributions; and determine a royalty distribution value for the identified individual contribution based, at least partially, upon at least one weighted metric regarding the compilation. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074693 | TRACKING FOR ROYALTY DETERMINATION - A method including identifying an individual contribution to a compilation, where the compilation comprises a plurality of individual contributions; and determining, at least partially with a computer processor, a royalty distribution value for the identified individual contribution based, at least partially, upon at least one weighted metric regarding the compilation. | 03-13-2014 |
20140082171 | REMEDIATING EVENTS USING BEHAVIORS - Remediating events of components using behaviors via an administrator system and an administrator client. The administrator system receives an event from a component of an information technology (IT) environment. A behavior is determined at least partly from the event. The behavior is determined to be an anomalous behavior at least partly from a group of previously received events. A coefficient is calculated, via a calculation, for the anomalous behavior at least partly from a weight. The administrator system sends a description of the anomalous behavior and a group of options to the administrator client. The description is at least partly based on the calculation. The administrator system receives a severity indication from the administrator client. The weight, the calculation, and the description are updated based on the severity indication. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082407 | REMEDIATING EVENTS USING BEHAVIORS - Remediating events of components using behaviors via an administrator system and an administrator client. The administrator system receives an event from a component of an information technology (IT) environment. A behavior is determined at least partly from the event. The behavior is determined to be an anomalous behavior at least partly from a group of previously received events. A coefficient is calculated, via a calculation, for the anomalous behavior at least partly from a weight. The administrator system sends a description of the anomalous behavior and a group of options to the administrator client. The description is at least partly based on the calculation. The administrator system receives a severity indication from the administrator client. The weight, the calculation, and the description are updated based on the severity indication. | 03-20-2014 |
20140189125 | QUERYING AND MANAGING COMPUTING RESOURCES IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - An approach for querying and managing/manipulating network computing resources (e.g., cloud computing resources) is provided. Typically, an interpreter component may be implemented so that a language describing such computing resources may be interpreted. The interpreter component may include other components such as a request processor, a provisioning queue, an execution engine, a results store, and response marshaller/handler that collaborate to manage the computing resources. Such computing resources may, for example, include virtual machine instances, virtual machine images, storage volumes, network resources, files, software bundles, etc. | 07-03-2014 |
20140222953 | Reliable and Scalable Image Transfer For Data Centers With Low Connectivity Using Redundancy Detection - A system and method for efficiently transferring virtual machine images across nodes in a cloud computing environment, includes analyzing each image on each node to create hash code clusters and a similarity matrix. An instruction to transfer an image from a source node to a target node is received. The clusters and the similarity matrix are used to determine to what extent the data from the image is already on the source node, or on any other node, and further determines the cost and speed of transferring such data to the target node. An optimal transfer plan is generated, and data that is not already on the target node is transferred to the target node from the most efficient node on which it is available, according to the optimal transfer plan. | 08-07-2014 |
20140310559 | System And Method For Graph Based K- Redundant Resiliency For IT Cloud - An apparatus for enabling resiliency for cloud computing systems is provided. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing computer program code. The memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform actions. The actions include modifying a topology graph of a network architecture by mapping processes flows onto the topology graph and creating a resiliency graph based on the modified topology graph. The actions also include modifying the resiliency graph by translating at least one SLA into the resiliency graph and identifying overlaps and dependencies in the modified resiliency graph. Apparatus and computer readable instructions are also described. | 10-16-2014 |