International Business Machines Corporation

Alfredo V Mendoza

Kyusun Chang

Jagadish Dasari

Franck Barillaud

Robert Thomas Arenburg

Rajesh K Jeyapaul

John Anthony Falkl

Clifford Jay Spinac

Shivnath Dutta

Hari Haranath Madduri

Joel Howard Schopp

Pradeep Parsram Mansey

Stephen Bailey Peckham

Glen Edmond Chalemin

John Edward Martin

Erik Allan Kane

John Alan Mims

Ana Maria Giordano

Tiffany Lynn Winman

Shiv Dutta

Selectively masking data in messages is provided. A masking expression is retrieved from a schema. The masking expression corresponds to a particular attribute within related messages generated by a producer application and sent to an immutable datastore for consumption by a consumer application of the computer that is registered to receive the messages related to a particular topic from the immutable datastore. A particular attribute value is masked only in those messages received from the immutable datastore that contain the particular attribute value during a time period when the particular attribute value is associated with the masking expression.

Dynamic data masking for immutable datastores

An apparatus includes a boundary module that determines if a mobile device is within a secure area. The mobile device includes a computing device capable of connecting to a wireless network. The apparatus includes a download module that downloads a latest version of a file from a secure server to the mobile device in response to the boundary module determining that the mobile device has entered the secure area. The apparatus includes a copy module that copies the file from the mobile device to the secure server in response to the boundary module determining that the mobile device has left the secure area and a deletion module that deletes the file from the mobile device in response to determining that the mobile device has left the secure area and in response to having completed copying the file from the mobile device to the secure server.

Stateful data geofencing

An apparatus includes a boundary module that determines if a mobile device is within a secure area. The mobile device includes a computing device capable of connecting to a wireless network. The apparatus includes a download module that downloads a latest version of a file from a secure server to the mobile device in response to the boundary module determining that the mobile device has entered the secure area. The apparatus includes a copy module that copies the file from the mobile device to the secure server in response to the boundary module determining that the mobile device has left the secure area and a deletion module that deletes the file from the mobile device in response to the boundary module determining that the mobile device has left the secure area and in response to the copy module completing copying the file from the mobile device to the secure server.

A clustered computing data processing system can be configured for inventory management in a highly available cluster. The system can include a cluster of computers managed by a cluster agent and providing high availability for a hosted application in the cluster. The system also can include a systems management tool executing in memory of a host computer system and coupled to the cluster agent and maintaining an inventory of data pertaining to the computers in the cluster. The system yet further can include an Internet protocol (IP) alias discover module coupled to the tool. The module can include program code executing in the memory of the host computer system so as to receive notification from the cluster agent of a change to addressing data for the computers in the cluster and, responsive to the notification, to update the inventory to reflect the change to the addressing data.

Inventory updating of an internet protocol (IP) alias within a highly available computing cluster

Computer-implemented methods for workload management and related computer program products are disclosed. One method comprises receiving corrosion rate signals from a first sensor associated with a first compute node, determining a first corrosion level for the first compute node as a function of the corrosion rate signal received from the first sensor, and automatically removing a first workload from the first compute node in response to determining that the first compute node has a first corrosion level that is greater than a setpoint level of corrosion.

Contamination based workload management

For generating privacy, a detection module detects an optical lingual cue from user speech that comprises an audible signal. A generation module transmits an inverse audible signal generated from the optical lingual cue.

Privacy generation

Mechanisms that dynamically check availability of hardware resources for applications of virtual environments are provided. One or more computing devices have various hardware resources available to applications of a virtual environment. Hardware resources may comprise, for example, amounts of memory, amounts or units of processing capability of one or more processors, and various types of peripheral devices. The mechanisms store hardware data pertaining to a specified amount of hardware recommended or required for an application to execute within the virtual environment. The mechanisms monitor for changes to the hardware configuration that may affect amount of hardware available to the virtual environment and/or application. If the changes to the hardware reduce the amount of available hardware to a point beyond the specified amount of hardware, the mechanisms prevent the application from being executed or prevent the changes to the hardware configuration.

Dynamic checking of hardware resources for virtual environments

A system for allocating resources which are anticipated to be available in an on-demand computing at some time in the future, wherein a producer trending agent (PTA) lists resources according to a trend prediction of resource availability in the past, a consumer trending agent (CTA) places bids for listed resources according to previous resource usage trends, and an arbitration system (REAS) matches the bids with the listings to determine if a match exists. If so, a binding contract for consumption of the matched listed resources is established. The PTA also produce tier-based dynamic incentive (TDI) schema which divides potential bidders into tiers, and offers additional resource incentives according to the tiers. Both PTA and CTA dynamically update their available/usage trends, listings and bids, over time.

Tier-based dynamic incentive arbitration in an on-demand computing environment

A computer implemented method, computer program product, and computer usable program code for preventing execution of program components having errors. First, a software application is executed. The software application interacts with a number of programs. Next, an error message is received. The error message indicates an error has occurred in a first program within the number of programs. The first program is then isolated such that the first program no longer interacts with the software application.

Method of isolating erroneous software program components

An example of a solution provided here comprises assessing readiness for transformation, based on a number of desirable application attributes; planning development work (which may involve mapping desirable application attributes to kinds of help); generating a proposal for transformation, and outputting the proposal.

Method of transforming an application into an on-demand service

A system for managing threads. A kernel tread associated with a user thread is detected as being unneeded by the user tread. The kernel thread is semi-detached in which data for the thread does not change stacks in response to the kernel thread being unneeded.

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Alfredo V Mendoza