Cisco Technology, Inc.

Dwight Rodney Frye, Jr

John G White

Thomas R Bakita

Robert A Mackie

Keith Richard Schomburg

Walter Glenn Dixon

Chris O'Rourke

Frank W Pittenger

Louis F Menditto

Mark Albert

Michael J Lemen

Vinod Jagannath Damle

One embodiment is a method and includes monitoring by a module associated with a first application component installed on a first virtual machine ('VM') a state of at least one second application component installed on a second VM and on which a state of the first application component is at least partially dependent, in which the state of the at least one second application component is made available by a module associated with the at least one application component; determining that the state of the at least one second application component has changed from a first state to a second state; and updating the state of the first application component based on a current state of the first application component and the second state of the at least one second application component.

Techniques for coordination of application components deployed on distributed virtual machines

A method for distributing information in a network environment is provided that includes receiving one or more packets from a communication flow initiated by an end user and selectively communicating information associated with the communication flow to a network element so that the network element may correlate a source with the communication flow.

System and method for distributing information in a network environment

A system includes a network and multiple network devices. The network devices run instances of various services. If a particular network device becomes inaccessible, the system is capable of replacing the services instances running on the inaccessible network device by initiating new service instances on the remaining network devices. If a new network device becomes accessible, the network is capable of redistributing the currently running service instances to balance the workload by initiating service instances on the new network device and terminating service instances on existing network device.

System and method for managing network services in a distributed system

In a distributed network, a data entry is received. The data entry is stored in a first one of a plurality of nodes and replicated in a second one of the plurality of nodes in order to provide data redundancy in the distributed network. In the event of a failure of the second one of the plurality of nodes, the data entry that was replicated therein is re-replicated into a third one of the plurality of nodes in order to maintain data redundancy despite the failure of the second one of the plurality of nodes. Data redundancy can be retained despite the failure of the second one of the plurality of nodes as long as the overall capacity for the distributed network remains above an initial threshold.

System and method for providing redundant data load sharing in a distributed network

A method for monitoring information in a network environment is provided that includes receiving one or more packets from a communication flow initiated by an end user. The information associated with the communication flow is then selectively communicated to a plurality of client-aware network elements.

System and method for monitoring information in a network environment

A memory system includes a client device and multiple memory devices. The client device communicates an operation request pertaining to a particular data object to one memory device. Referencing a host table, the memory device identifies multiple memory devices associated with an object key of the data object. The memory device communicates the operation request to the identified memory devices to be completed. If one of the memory devices in the memory system becomes inaccessible, the memory system is capable of replacing the inaccessible memory device in the host table. Furthermore, if a new memory device is added to the memory system, the memory system is capable of modifying the host table to associate some of the possible object keys with the new memory device.

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Dwight Rodney Frye, Jr