Novell, Inc.

Enterasys Networks, Inc.

Micro Focus Software Inc.

Gregory Matthew Haskins

Stephen R Carter

Jonathan Paul Bultmeyer

Daniel Edward Westervelt

David H Bahi

Techniques for policy and identity-based workload provisioning are presented. Identities for requestors or workloads and identities for workloads are tied to specific policies. The specific policies are evaluated based on a stage of readiness for resources within a resource pool and based on resource identities for the resources within the resource pool. Resources are then dynamically provisioned based on the identity-based policy evaluation to handle workloads from the resource pool.

Policy and identity based workload provisioning

Write transactions with large amounts of data using a typical cache may consume over half of the available backing store bandwidth because of the way traditional caching algorithms fill lines during a write-invoked eviction. Relaxing the traditional constraint of cache coherency improves write performance by eliminating unneeded cache line fills. This technique conserves backing store bandwidth during many write operations while having negligible impact on the cache's read performance.

Methods for improved data caching

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Worcester, MA, United States of America

Gregory Matthew Haskins