International Business Machines Corporation

Kyndryl, Inc.

Christopher C Bode

Marci Devorah Formato

Cesar Bravo

Joseph Reyes

Andrew S Kronstadt

Nathan B Best

Bernhard Julius Klingenberg

Daniela Kern Mainieri Trevisan

Naina Singh

Abhishek Dhingra

Rennad L D Murugan

Embodiments relate to providing an advanced deterrence system for bots in an interactive communication environment. In response to identifying that an automated program for a user terminal is accessing an interactive communication environment hosted by a host computer system, a selection of an assignment for the automated program is triggered, where the automated program is designed to replicate a human behavior in the interactive communication environment. In response to triggering the selection, a task is selected as the assignment for the automated program designed to replicate the human behavior, the task being selected from a plurality of tasks that are queued to be executed by the host computer system. The task is caused to be executed by the automated program on the user terminal, the task causing a consumption of user computer resources on the user terminal.

Advanced deterrence for bots in an interactive communication environment

Embodiments relate to dynamic creating a temporary isolated environment in an interactive communication environment for potential bots. In response to identifying that an avatar accessing the interactive communication environment is being controlled by a non-human entity, the avatar is dynamically placed in an isolated virtual environment. Permission of the avatar are disabled in the isolated virtual environment. An authentication inquiry is presented to the avatar identified as being controlled by the non-human entity. A location is transferred for the avatar identified as being controlled by the non-human entity, based on a user response to the authentication inquiry.

Dynamic creation of temporary isolated environment in an interactive communication environment

Technology for storing legal hold data in the cloud (for example, in containers), where the source of the data stored in the cloud is independent backup copy(ies) that are maintained by an enterprise subject to a legal hold order. Changing the legal hold data as it is stored in the set of backup copy(ies) in a manner will not change the legal hold data as it is stored in the cloud. Mechanism may also be provided for auditing chain of custody and authenticating parties who request legal hold data to be delivered from cloud storage.

Storing legal hold data in cloud data storage units

A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a data restore request; determining, by the computing device, at least one object in response to the data restore request; and querying, by the computing device, a client population to determine at least one client which has resources and network cardinality to assist the data restore request. The at least one client creates a distributed and crowd sourced cache of objects for the data restore request.

Crowd sourced data restores

A method, system, and program product for controlling power associated with connectivity between devices is provided. The method includes scheduling a copy function associated with copying data from a production hardware device to a secure hardware device at a specified time period. A first hardware connection between the production hardware device and a production network associated with the production hardware device is disabled during the specified time period and a second hardware connection between the production hardware device and the secure hardware device is enabled. A subsequent copy function is enabled for copying the data from the production hardware device to the secure hardware device. The second hardware connection between the production hardware device and the secure hardware device is disabled after the copy function has completed. In response, the first hardware connection between the production hardware device and the production network is enabled.

Device connectivity power control

A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for backing up data from a virtual machine. A backup service is presented by a computer system as a storage system to the virtual machine, wherein the storage system is located outside of the virtual machine. A hypervisor for the virtual machine is instructed by the computer system to present the storage system as a virtualized storage system to the virtual machine. Data is received by the computer system from the hypervisor in which the data is stored on the virtualized storage system by a backup client performing a backup operation in the virtual machine.

Backup system for an overlay network

A method, system, and computer program product manages a storage system. Writes to sections in solid state storage devices in endurance tiers in the storage system are monitored by a computer system over a period of time. Responsive to a write rate for the writes to a section in the sections in an current endurance tier in the endurance tiers exceeding a maximum recommended write rate for the current endurance tier during the period of time, data is moved from the section in the current endurance tier to a higher endurance tier in the endurance tiers having a higher maximum recommended write rate than the maximum recommended write rate for the current endurance tier.

Write-based data management using endurance tiers in a storage system

Cross backup application diskless data migration is provided. Legacy data backups eligible for migration are identified in a legacy backup environment. Application specific information regarding the legacy data backups eligible for migration is received. The application specific information is filtered to indicate only legacy backup data that must be migrated representing a type of migration desired. The application specific information corresponding to the legacy backup data that must be migrated is presented as a virtual filesystem mounted within an operating system such that the application specific information is seen as live local data. A backup of the virtual filesystem mounted within the operating system is performed.

Cross-backup application diskless data migration

A content-lifecycle management system (CLMS) intercepts a request to perform an action upon a data object in a domain of a multi-domain computing environment during a certain phase of the object's lifecycle. The CLMS retrieves data and rules from a cross-domain distributed ledger that is accessible throughout the multi-domain environment. The retrieved information includes content-lifecycle management policies that control which actors can perform certain types of actions upon specific data objects during various lifecycle phases. The ledger also describes and classifies actors, dependency relationships between storage and infrastructure components of the environment, and the results of past requests. If the CLMS, using the ledger information, determines that performing the requested action would neither disrupt access to the data object nor be prohibited by the policies, the CLMS directs an appropriate content-management technology to perform the action, updates the ledger, and reports any rejected requests to other lifecycle-management components.

Cross-domain content-lifecycle management

A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for deduplicating data. Data is stored by a computer system in storage domains in a storage system. Deduplication is performed by the computer system within each storage domain in the storage domains using a hash table that includes entries for all of the storage domains. Cross-deduplication between the storage domains is avoided in the storage system.

Deduplicated storage with multiple storage domains

Provided are techniques for a headless resilient backup and restore software ecosystem. At a first backup server of a plurality of backup servers, a connection request is received. At the first backup server, a second backup server is identified by: determining a backup server score for each of the plurality of backup servers based on identification factors comprising historical client latency, scheduled backup server workload, and whether the metadata is already cached on any of the plurality of backup servers and identifying the second backup server as having a lowest backup server score. The identification of the second backup server is returned.

Headless resilient backup and restore software ecosystem and with a first backup server and a second backup server in a plurality of backup servers, with the first backup server selecting a the second backup server to start a job where selection is based on historical client latency, scheduled backup server workload, and whether metadata is cached in any of the plurality of backup servers

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Christopher C Bode