International Business Machines Corporation

Qualcomm Incorporated

Dean Lorenz

Ofer Biran

Eran Raichstein

Yosef Moatti

Gilad Sharaby

Erez Hadad

Ezra Silvera

Inbar Shapira

Elliot Karl Kolodner

Roberto Avanzi

Katherine Barabash

Boris Dolgunov

Ivan Hugh McLean

David Breitgand

Michael Masin

Ilyas Mohamed Iyoob

Valleriya Perelman

Avi Weit

Elliot K Kolodmer

Embodiments of the present communications systems and methods may provide the capability for fast and reliable transitioning between the different versions of the service of the multi-node service deployed in the utility computing system. For example, in an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for data traffic distribution may comprise allocating a plurality of data traffic service network addresses to a load balancer service, wherein each data traffic service network address is associated with a different version of the load balancer service, receiving a plurality of data traffic flows, and distributing each data traffic flow to a version of the load balancer service based on a data traffic service network address of each data traffic flow.

DNS-based in-packet service version tagging

A heterogeneous resource reservation (HRR) manager configured to classify historical application requests from a past time interval for a first workload to generate labeled historical application requests. The HRR manager further configured to generate a forecast based on the labeled historical application requests and for predicting future application requests for the first workload for a future time interval and calculate a joint plan based on the forecast. The joint plan including a set of virtual resources, a set of billing contracts, and a set of load balancer weights. The HRR manager further configured to implement the joint plan for a distributed computing workload during the future time interval.

Heterogeneous resource reservation

An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product, and system for data transfer management. The embodiment may include receiving a data packet from a client computing device. The received data packet is part of a data flow. The embodiment may include determining that the received data packet is not part of a data flow tracking list. The embodiment may include computing a current mapping value for the received data packet. The embodiment may include determining that a global system state of expecting change exists. The embodiment may include computing an expected mapping value for the received data packet. The embodiment may include determining that the expected mapping value is not equal to the current mapping value. The embodiment may include adding the data flow to the data flow tracking list. The embodiment may include forwarding the received data packet according to the current mapping value.

Distributed affinity tracking for network connections

Disclosed is a method for providing a public key for authenticating an integrated circuit. In the method, the integrated circuit obtains a hardware key and an integrated circuit identifier. The integrated circuit generates a derived key based on the hardware key using a key derivation function (KDF) shared with a manufacturing machine. The integrated circuit generates a private key and a corresponding public key using the derived key as an input to a deterministic function. The integrated circuit then provides the public key and the integrated circuit identifier to a partner service for authentication of the integrated circuit using an anonymized credential database to be provided to the partner service by a manufacturer.

Apparatus and method for providing a public key for authenticating an integrated circuit

Systems and methods for reducing risk of service interruptions for one or more virtual machines (VMs) in a computing environment are provided. The method comprises computing a placement scheme for placing at least one VM on one or more hosts according to a set of placement constraints defined for the VM, wherein the set of placement constraints comprises at least one availability constraint defined for the VM, wherein the availability constraint designates a N resiliency level, wherein N corresponds to number of host failures that may occur before the services provided by the VM are interrupted.

Optimized placement of virtual machines in a network environment

A revision control service is included in a hypervisor. The revision control service manages revision control operations relating virtual machine images transparently to the virtual machine. The revision control service interacts with a conventional revision control program, stores relevant revision control metadata external to the virtual machine image with file-level granularity, and synchronizes virtual machine operations with the revision control operations. From the perspective of the virtual machine, the revision control service provides a clean image from which to boot, without modification of the revision control program.

Hypervisor service to provide image version control support

A system and method for creating N customized disk images from N identical disk images. A computing system creates N identical disk images from a master image. The computing system customize a first identical disk image according to a customization written in customization scripts. While customizing the first identical disk image, the computing system monitors block-level operations applied on the first identical disk image. The computing system applies the monitored block-level operations simultaneously to other N&#x2212;1 identical disk according to similar customizations written in customization scripts. After applying the block-level operations, the N identical disk images become N customized disk images. Identical Virtual Machines (VMs) operating in the N identical disk images become N customized VMs by operating based on the N customized disk images.

Method and system for efficient image customization for mass deployment

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Dean Lorenz