International Business Machines Corporation

Adam Robert Geiger

Hugh Edward Hockett

Wei Lung Chan

Aaron J Quirk

Nataraj Nagaratnam

Hillery C Hunter

Dinakaran B Joseph

Kevin Glynn Paterson

Michael S Law

Edward M Howard

Priyank Narvekar

Spencer Lewis Smith

A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for configuring a computing environment. A configuration profile is identified by a computer system for the computing environment that is to be deployed in which the computing environment meets a security policy to run an application in the computing environment. A determination is made, by the computer system, as to whether the configuration profile for the computing environment meets the security policy for running the application in the computing environment. The configuration profile for the computing environment is deployed, by the computer system, to configure the computing environment for the application in response to the configuration profile meeting the security policy.

Security compliance for a secure landing zone

An approach is provided in which an information handling system receives a scaling request corresponding to an application that includes multiple workloads executing on a first cloud environment and a second cloud environment. The first cloud environment is managed by a first service provider and the second cloud environment is managed by a second service provider. The information handling system evaluates the scaling request against a first set of policies corresponding to the first service provider and against a second set of policies corresponding to the second service provider. In turn, the information handling system scales, in response to the evaluating, one or more first resources on the first cloud environment and one or more second resources on the second cloud environment to fulfill the scaling request.

Policy based requesting/approval system across multiple hybrid clouds

A method and a system for enabling resource consumption for one or more applications running in a virtual production environment within a production environment based on a testing analysis. The method and system includes generating a multi-stage virtual computing environment within a computing production environment. A software application can run in the virtual computing environment. The method and system provides access to resources in the computing production environment from the virtual computing environment. The method and system allows the software application access to the computing production environment based on a testing analysis and uses abstraction layers to control allocation of resources in the production environment.

Virtual fencing gradient to incrementally validate deployed applications directly in production cloud computing environment

A method, system and computer program product for updating hardware and software components of a cloud computing environment. An administrative server monitors the usage statistics (e.g., compute utilization) of the hardware and software components of the cloud computing environment. Upon receiving user-selected thresholds for the usage statistics, which may be stored in a profile, the administrative server applies a user-provided patch to the hardware or software component whose threshold criteria has been met. Alternatively, the administrative server may automatically update the hardware and software components based on determined minimum usage points (i.e., minimum levels of usage activity) using the monitored usage statistics of the hardware and software components. In this manner, updates to the hardware and software components of the cloud computing environment can occur at optimal times, where the usage activity is low, thereby lessening the negative impact on servicing the user's computing requirements from the update.

Updating hardware and software components of cloud computing environment at optimal times

A method for making intelligent application and setting recommendations may include determining, by a device, a current context of a user of the device in response to the device being one of unlocked and turned-on. The method may also include determining, by the device, if the current context of the user has changed from a previous context of the user at a time when the device was one of locked and turned-off. The method may additionally include presenting a recommendation on a display of the device. The recommendation may include at least one of an application for operation on the device, options for operation of the device, and operating settings of the device, based on the current context of the user, in response to determining that the current context of the user has changed from the previous context.

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