Pure Storage, Inc.

Alibaba.com Limited

Gregory McNutt

Naveen Neelakantam

Yuval Frandzel

Sergey Zhuravlev

Adam Cross

Chuck Kao

Liujin Yu

Farhan Abrol

Michael Effle

Mitchell Wells

Kapil Kanwar

An exemplary method includes accessing information associated with a power supply connection between a plurality of power distribution units and a plurality of power converters of a data center appliance, determining, based on the information, a current power connection topology of the plurality of power converters of the data center appliance with respect to the plurality of power distribution units, analyzing the current power connection topology to determine whether the current power connection topology satisfies predefined operating parameters for the data center appliance and the plurality of power distribution units, and performing, based on the analyzing of the current power connection topology, an action associated with the power supply connection between the plurality of power converters and the plurality of power distribution units.

Monitoring a power connection topology of a data center

Cloning storage systems in a cloud computing environment, including: receiving a request to create a cloud-based storage system; retrieving, from cloud-based object storage, one or more objects to include in the cloud-based storage system; and creating the cloud-based storage system, including storing, in block storage of the cloud-based storage system, data contained in the one or more objects retrieved from the cloud-based object storage.

Creating a cloud-based storage system

Copying a cloud-based storage system

A method for storage system reliability using data recovery as a service, the method including: receiving, for storage data on a storage system, a specification for a particular recovery time objective ('RTO') and recovery point objective ('RPO') setting among a plurality of options for RTO/RPO settings; generating, in accordance with the particular RTO/RPO setting, a change stream of data in response to receiving data to be stored on the storage system; and transmitting, from the storage system to a cloud data recovery as a service endpoint, the change stream of data from which data on the storage system may be recovered up to a point in time corresponding to the particular RPO setting and within a time period corresponding to the particular RTO setting.

Storage system data recovery using data recovery as a service

A stream of events is received, where individual events within the stream of events are received out-of-order. The events from the stream of events are ordered. Whether a predetermined collection of events have occurred within a predetermined period of time is determined. Responsive to determining that the predetermined collection of events have occurred within the predetermined period of time, an action associated with the predetermined sequence of events is initiated.

Event identification with out-of-order reporting in a cloud-based environment

Cloning storage systems in a cloud computing environment

Developing, deploying, and operating an application in a plurality of environments is disclosed, including: defining runtime specific configuration information for a plurality of environments, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration includes topology configuration and security configuration, wherein the runtime environment specific configuration information is stored separately from other configuration information and is protected by an identity management system; executing an application in one of the plurality of environments, wherein execution of the application is controlled by a first role; and presenting a credential associated with the first role to the identity management system to obtain a portion of the runtime environment specific configuration information corresponding to the environment associated with the executing application.

Software development and deployment in multiple environments

Develop and deploy software in multiple environments

Matching users with similar interests is disclosed, including: obtaining, from an external source, items of interest as indicated by a plurality of users; storing information about the plurality of users and their respective items of interest; and identifying, for a first user of the plurality of users, a set of similar users who have overlapping interests as the first user, wherein the overlapping interests are determined based at least in part on items of interest to the first user and items of interest to the plurality of users.

Matching users with similar interests

Determining preference activities to present to a current user includes: obtaining a plurality of candidate preference activities; determining a recommendation weight for one of the plurality of candidate preference activities with respect to the current user; and presenting at least some of the plurality of candidate preference activities based on recommendation weights corresponding to the plurality of candidate preference activities.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Gregory McNutt