Turbonomic, Inc.

Columbia University

International Business Machines Corporation

Apostolos Dailianas

Danilo Florissi

Shmuel Kliger

Wei Duan

Shravan Sriram

Charles Crouchman

Michael Borodiansky

Vivek Nandavanam

Yechiam Yemeni

Yechiam Yemini

Endre Sara

Enlin Xu

Mor Cohen

Jerrold Leichter

Nitya Hemang Vyas

Alexander Nish

Dmitry Illichev

Various approaches for managing one or more computational commodities in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) include receiving a collection of utilization records for a user utilizing a desktop resource supported by the computational commodity in a desktop pool, each utilization record corresponding to a utilization rate of the computational commodity by the user; and augmenting or reducing allocation of the computational commodity to the desktop resource utilized by the user based at least in part on the utilization rates.

Systems and methods for managing resources in a virtual desktop infrastructure

Systems, methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are disclosed for regulating access of consumers (e.g., applications, containers, or VMs) to resources and services (e.g., storage). In one embodiment, this regulation occurs through the movement of consumers between different providers of a resource or service, such as a cloud service provider. Moving consumers includes, for example, determining the cost of moving the consumer from a first provider to a second provider. According to various embodiments, the cost of moving the consumer is compared to cost and performance criteria associated with moving the consumer from the first provider to the second provider. Cloud-based services may be priced as templates, reserved instances, or a combination.

Systems, apparatus and methods for cost and performance-based management of resources in a cloud environment

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for assuring application performance by matching the supply of resources (e.g., application resources, VM resources, or physical resources) with the fluctuating demand placed on the application. For example, the systems and methods disclosed herein can be used to ensure that the application is allocated sufficient resources when it is initially deployed to handle anticipated demand; dynamically alter the resources allocated to the application during operation by matching the resource requirements to the actual measured application demand; and predict future resource requirements based on planning assumptions related to future application demand.

Managing application performance in virtualization systems

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for regulating access of consumers (e.g., applications, containers, or VMs) to resources and services (e.g., storage). In one embodiment, this regulation occurs through the movement of consumers between different providers of a resource or service. Moving consumers includes, for example, determining the cost of moving the consumer from a first provider to a second provider. According to various embodiments, the cost of moving the consumer is compared to savings associated with moving the consumer from the first provider to the second provider.

Moving resource consumers in computer systems

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for regulating access of consumers (e.g., applications, containers, or VMs) to resources and services (e.g., storage). In one embodiment, this regulation occurs through the use of access or action permits, referred to as permits that the consumer acquires from an intermediate entity&#x2014;an Action Manager (AM)&#x2014;prior to accessing the resource or service. Regulating access includes, for example, controlling one or more of the number of concurrent accesses to a particular resource, the rate at which consumers access the resource, the total number of consumers in a group of consumers accessing the resource, and the total rate at which a group of consumers accesses a resource. According to various embodiments, similar regulation is applied to a group of resources (rather than a single resource).

Managing resources in computer systems using action permits

Systems, apparatus and methods are disclosed which are directed to computer program products for automatically understanding and addressing the QoS adherence of a workload in a computer network. The use of pricing can be used to provide QoS adherence for any type of demand or service. The disclosed methodologies can be applied to applications, to virtual machines, to storage, and/or other types of workload, demand or service that is achieved through the use of shared resources.

Systems, apparatus, and methods for managing quality of service agreements

An inventive monitor monitors accesses to a resource in an electronic system, such that access to the resource is based on payments in electronic security value units. The monitor detects patterns of payments for the resource in electronic security value units, and compares the patterns of payments to predetermined patterns of payment. In addition, the monitor determines a difference in the compared patterns of payments to the predetermined patterns of payment, such that when the difference is greater than a predetermined threshold difference, an attack is indicated.

Unified monitoring and detection of intrusion attacks in an electronic system

A method for identifying a particular component of an electronic system that accesses a resource of the electronic system using electronic security value units is described. First, electronic security value units are selectively distributing to a plurality of components, such as to a client, of the electronic system. Next, a unique first association is created with each individual component to which the security electronic security value units are distributed. Further, upon a particular access to a resource, a unique second association is created between particular ones of security electronic security value units and the particular access to the resource. In addition, the unique second association is analyzed to determine which particular security electronic security value units were used to access the particular resource. Then, the first association of the particular security electronic security value units is analyzed to determine the identity of the component which accessed the resource.

Identification of an attacker in an electronic system

A network utilizes electronic security value units to prevent unauthorized access to resources in the network. The network includes at least a resource manager and an electronic bank server (e.g., the local resource bank). The resource manager determine a pricing strategy in electronic security value units for a group of one or more resources in the network. The electronic bank server selectively distributing electronic security value units to a client in the network, where the electronic security value units are unique to a group of one or more resources. Accordingly, access to a resource in the group, by the client, is determined by at least the above pricing strategy and by an amount of electronic security value units distributed to the client.

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