Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Servicenow, Inc.

Giedrius Zizys

Ashvinkumar J Sanghvi

Michael W Thomas

Alexander M Sutton

Roger W Sprague

Michael S Murstein

Vij Rajarajan

Kent S Schliiter

Federico Garcea

Matthew C Odhner

Kestutis Patiejunas

Bahadir Baris Onalan

Pritam K Sharma

Brian Thomas Berkowitz

Catharine Van Ingen

Vinay Badami

David Wei Ge

Nigel Graham Cain

Robert T Hutchison

Michael T Roth

Robert M Fries

Karandeep Singh Anand

Anders Bertil Vinberg

William David Sproule

Seetharaman Harikrishnan

Nikhil Vijay Chandhok

Brian Michael Wahlert

Tzong-Jhy Wang

Yezdi Z Lashkari

Sunil Pai

Ashvin Sanghvi

Kenneth Van Hyning

Dileep R Kumar

Andrea Westerinen

Purushottam M Kulkarni

Victor E Santodomingo

Anthony Baron

David E Gonzalez

R Syam Kumar

Venkatasubrahmanyam Raman

Andrew Timothy Hopper

Dileep R P Kumar

Matt C Odhner

Matt Odhner

Mike W Morrison

Andy Hopper

Portable packages containing encodings of processes are applied to software stacks. The packages are portable and distinct from the software stacks. The packages may be in the form of declarative code for configuring the software stack and can be plugged into the software stack to allow the technology stack to play the packages, thereby configuring the stacks to be capable of automating the processes encoded by the packages. An application or software component can be provided to read a package and apply parts thereof to appropriate corresponding software stack components.

Applying packages to configure software stacks

Enhanced, efficient source frame decoding for user previewing is implemented by decoding and caching source frames of an input file that a user is interested in. Source frames for a user preview session are identified and decoded first to enhance user satisfaction with more timely preview segments for review. Additional source frames continue to be decoded on the fly to opportunistically enhance the current preview segment and to be prepared for additional preview segments and/or output file generation.

Opportunistic frame caching

Restarting transmission and application of changed data. A method includes receiving from the second location a first checkpoint. The first checkpoint points to a last record applied to replication data at the second location to replicate data from the first location. The method further includes receiving from the second location a second checkpoint. The second checkpoint is received by the second location from the first location. The second checkpoint identifies a last record in the set of transmitted records. The method further includes transmitting the received first checkpoint back to the second location with a command to restart applying records from the last record applied pointed to in the first checkpoint. The method further includes transmitting the received second checkpoint to the first location with a command for the first location to restart transmission of records from the last record in the set of records.

Method, system, and apparatus for providing resilient data transfer in a data protection system

A data synchronization task is received at a console, wherein the data synchronization task is associated with information technology management. A configuration document is configured using the data synchronization task, wherein the configuration document defines data synchronization through declarations. A linking framework is configured based on the configuration document. Data is synchronized from a first and second source to a target as defined by the configuration document.

Linking framework for information technology management

A method for transmitting records of changes to data from a production location to a storage location is provided. The method stores in a log, records of changes to data stored at a production location. Those records are transmitted and a transmitted records checkpoint is generated that is transmitted at the end of the transmitted records. A records checkpoint confirmation is received and the plurality of transmitted records are purged from the log.

A method for transmitting records of changes to data from a production location to a storage location. The method stores in a log, records of changes to data stored at a production location. Those records are transmitted and a transmitted records checkpoint is generated that is transmitted at the end of the transmitted records. A records checkpoint conformation is received and the plurality of transmitted records are purged from the log.

Described are software stacks for accepting and implementing portable packages containing encodings of processes. The packages are portable and distinct from the technology stacks. The packages may be in the form of declarative code for configuring the technology stacks and can be plugged into the technology stacks to allow the technology stack to play the packages, thereby automating the processes encoded by the packages. The technology stacks have components that are declaratively configurable such that they can provide their functionality autonomously and yet can also, as a unit, in performing their respective functions, cooperatively perform the processes encoded by the packages.

Configurable software stack

Described is sharing of portable packages containing encodings of processes. The packages can be provided to and shared among organizations or firms so that the packages can be applied to their software stacks. The packages are portable and distinct from the technology stacks. The packages can cross reference each other. The packages may be in the form of declarative code for configuring the technology stacks and can be plugged into the technology stacks to allow the technology stack to play the packages, thereby automating the processes encoded by the packages. The packages can be digitally signed or provided with certificates that can be used to verify their authenticity. The packages can be distributed over a network as requested by the various firms or organizations.

Providing packages for configuring software stacks

A method for creating a group plan for protecting an object located at a production location is provided. A selection of an object for which a group plan is to be created is received along with protection intents for the selected object. The protection intents are translated into a group plan for protecting the selected object.

Method, system, and apparatus for translating logical information representative of physical data in a data protection system

A change management system for managing configurable devices such as computer systems uses a set of rules for validating change requests, linking change requests, and determining inconsistencies within various configuration states. Analysis and validation may happen at the time the change request is created with respect to the current environment, as well as analysis and validation with respect to other pending requests and proposals, and historical actual states. The maintenance of accurate and consistent state and change information may enable various automated tools to analyze and manipulate change requests, including analysis of future desired states, historical actual states, pending change requests, and current state. The change request may be processed through an approval cycle all the while being incorporated into a scheduling system that may be used to detect inconsistent, illogical or harmful configurations in potential future configurations.

Configuration change management tool

A configuration management database for storing configuration information about an IT system. The configuration management database may have representations of configuration items that correspond to configuration items in the IT system, indicia of relations between the configuration items, and attributes of the configuration items. The configuration management database may also have configuration state information of the configuration items, where the configuration state information has information indicating whether a configuration item, relation, or attribute is in a state of pending approval or in a state of planned deployment. The configuration management database may also have temporal information indicating a temporal state of a configuration item, relation, or attribute.

Configuration management database state model

A system and method is provided for gathering and aggregating operational metrics (e.g., performance metrics, process events, health monitor state, server state) for a plurality of members as a single entity and for a plurality of entities as a singular entity. The system and method provides for operational metrics of members and entities to be aggregated and retrieved as a single result set, such that entity wide operational metrics can be acquired, monitored and displayed as a single entity.

Distributed data gathering and aggregation agent

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