International Business Machines Corporation

Jeffrey Alan Frey

Michael D Swanson

Jeffrey Mark Nick

David Arlen Elko

Michael D Williams

Audrey A Helffrich

Gary Stuart Puchkoff

Rodney Alan Little

Friedemann Baitinger

Hubertus Franke

Chung-Sheng Li

Pratap Chandra Pattnaik

David Bruce Lindquist

Peter Bergersen Yocom

Matt Richard Hogstrom

Nagui Halim

Brad L Brech

Brian B Moore

Jimmy Paul Strickland

Scott W Crowder

Balachandar Rajaraman

John Elliott Arwe

Radha P Ratnaparkhi

Rodney A Smith

Stefan Pappe

Carroll Eugene Fulkerson, Jr

John F Isenberg, Jr

Jeb R Linton

Reinhard Theodor Buendgen

William J Rooney

Jerry Wayne Stevens

James A O'Connor

George Conerly Wilson

Carl Edward Clark

Jeffery J Van Heuklon

Christopher Paul Vignola

Joseph M Gdaniec

Ingo Adlung

Theodore R Maeurer

Logan M Colby

Robert H High

Bruce H Ratcliff

Chandrasekaran Mohan

Stephen R Valley

Patricia G Driever

Timothy James Hahn

Inderpal Singh Narang

Steve Richard White

Lap Thiet Huynh

Constantinos Kassimis

Boas Betzler

Angelo Macchiano

Hiren Ramlal Shah

Kimberly Tekavec Bailey

Kenneth Glenn Rothwell

Michael J Branson

Renato John Recio

Yu-Cheng Hsu

David Harold Surman

John Joseph Rofrano

Casper A Scalzi

Steven Gene Halverson

Christine Axnix

Allan Samuel Meritt

Kenneth E Plambeck

Stefan Amann

Robert R Rogers

Andrew Neil Trossman

Dilip Dinkar Kandlur

Michael Gerard Mall

Robert Howard High, Jr

Ramamohan Chennamsetty

Donald Francis Ferguson

Jeffrey David Aman

Bhaskar Sinha

Ambrose A Verdibello, Jr

Matthew J Sykes

Georg Ochs

Stephen Joseph Kinder

William C Shepard

David Andrew Booz

Kevin F Smith

Viktor Mihajlovski

Hendrik Wagner

Carl Mayer

James H Warnes

Alan I Alpert

Anthony Wayne Erwin

Scott Andrew Fagen

Friedrich Michael Welter

Ronald F Hill

Joseph A Williams

Lisa M Goetze

Debasish Banerjee

David Alan Zavala

David C Manners

Ted Eric Blank

Ute Schuerfeld

Angelo Pruscino

John H Eilert

Outcome-based adjustment of a software-defined environment (SDE) includes determining a business operation and a corresponding set of tasks to be performed in a software defined environment (SDE), establishing a first resource configuration to perform the corresponding set of tasks to achieve a business outcome target, determining a first resource cost for performing the corresponding set of tasks, assigning a priority level to tasks within the corresponding set of tasks, determining a set of performance indicators corresponding to a task having a first priority level, monitoring the SDE to identify a triggering event, responsive to identifying the triggering event, establishing a second resource configuration based, at least in part, on a performance level of a performance indicator in the set of performance indicators, the second resource configuration addressing the triggering event, and determining a second resource cost for performing the corresponding set of tasks according to the second resource configuration.

Outcome-based software-defined infrastructure

Technical solutions are described for extending shrouding capability of a virtual server hosting system. An example method includes receiving a request to deploy a shrouded virtual server using a predetermined set of hardware components, and using a shrouded mode. The method also includes adding a guest server to the hosting system, the guest server including the predetermined set of hardware components. The method also includes deploying a preconfigured hypervisor on the guest server, where the preconfigured hypervisor is deployed in an immutable mode that disables changes to security settings of the preconfigured hypervisor. The method also includes deploying, by the preconfigured hypervisor, a preconfigured boot image as an instance of the virtual server on the preconfigured hypervisor. The method also includes sending an identifier of the virtual server for receipt by the client device.

Extending shrouding capability of hosting system

A method and system for outcome-based adjustment of a software-defined environment (SDE) that includes establishing a link between a business outcome and a first resource configuration from software defined environment, establishing a monitoring mechanism for continuously measuring a current state of the SDE, using a behavior model of the SDE to anticipate, or forecast, a triggering event, and responsive to the forecast of a triggering event, using the behavior model to determine a second resource configuration to achieve the business outcome. The link includes at least one of a utility of services for the business outcome, a cost of a set of resources consumed by the first resource configuration, and a risk of the set of resources becoming unavailable.

There is a method and system for capability-based resource allocation in a software-defined environment that performs the following steps (not necessarily in the following order): (i) determining a set of capability characteristics for a plurality of workload resources within a software-defined environment; (ii) determining a set of workload components for a specified workload; and (iii) identifying a set of workload resources from the plurality of workload resources to allocate to the specified workload based, at least in part, on the set of capability characteristics corresponding to each workload within the set of workload resources. A workload component of the set of workload components has a unique set of workload characteristics.

Capability-based abstraction of software-defined infrastructure

An integrated hybrid system is provided. The hybrid system includes compute components of different types and architectures that are integrated and managed by a single point of control to provide federation and the presentation of the compute components as a single logical computing platform.

Management of a data network of a computing environment

Ensemble having one or more computing systems and a controller thereof

Integration of heterogeneous computing systems into a hybrid computing system

Managing a workload of a plurality of virtual servers of a computing environment

Extending a plurality of manageability capabilities of manageable information technology (IT) resources utilize an 'aspect of' association for describing a relationship between a first object representing a manageable resource playing a role of a subject and one or more additional objects each playing a role of an aspect. The 'aspect of' association establishes an overall manageability function for the first object representing a manageable resource and the one or more additional objects as a logical composition of a plurality of manageability capabilities. The manageability capabilities are provided using distinct implementation classes for supporting a specific role, and for supporting management-discipline related aspects and behaviors needed by each of a plurality of resource management applications for managing the manageable resource. The one or more additional objects have an aspect life cycle that is bounded maximally by a subject lifecycle of the first manageable resource.

Dynamically extending a plurality of manageability capabilities of it resources through the use of manageability aspects

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