Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jeffrey Edwin Shipman

Nelly L Porter

Himanshu Soni

Vijay G Bharadwaj

Violet Anna Barhudarian

Samer Arafeh

Arthur Baker

Karanbir Singh

Jeremy Dominic Viegas

Robert Binneweg Francis

John D T Wood

Nicholas James Anderson

Arthur H Baker

Jeremy D Viegas

A method for managing storage and computational resources in a datacenter includes obtaining a power delivery limit for a rack power supply delivering power to the plurality of computing devices and measuring a resource telemetry for the first computing device and second computing device in the server rack. In response to measuring a power draw of the server rack above a power threshold value of the power delivery limit, the method includes allocating the second computing device of the server rack as a storage server to the first computing device. The method occurs at a server rack including a plurality of computing devices. A first computing device and a second computing device are in network communication with one another. Each of the first computing device and second computing device include a processor and a hardware storage device.

Allocating compute nodes as storage in a power-constrained environment

The techniques and systems disclosed herein pertain to preventing unauthorized access to computing resources by unauthorized persons by deploying biometric security. To implement biometric security, the computing device, possibly by the OS, may obtain samples of one or more biometric factors unique to the owner. The computing device may construct pattern-matching templates corresponding to the biometric samples, which may be stored for later use when a protected resource is requested. Computing resources may be selected for protection by a biometric security mechanism by an authorized user or by other techniques or default settings. Before allowing certain restricted actions, the OS may request that the user provide one of the previously registered biometric samples. If the biometric sample matches the user's stored pattern-matching template, the OS may grant access to the computing resource, otherwise, the OS may deny access to the computing resource.

Resource management based on biometric data

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Jeffrey Edwin Shipman