Emc Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

John Daniel Hushon

David Stephen Reiner

Nihar Nanda

Stephen J Todd

Thomas J McSweeney

Nicholas Weaver

Jeffrey Mark Nick

Mark A Parenti

Stephen Glen Graham

Peter John McCann

David Ohsie

Humberto Rodriguez

Igor Makhlin

Thomas J McSweeny

Jeff Nick

Tom McSweeney

A node is monitored using metadata gathered by an in-memory process. Metadata for the node is dynamically gathered using a process running in memory; and the gathered metadata is provided to a remote server for storage. The process comprises, for example, an in-memory microkernel executing on a boot node. The metadata comprises, for example, information about physical characteristics of the node, information about one or more software packages installed on the node and/or information about one or more of an operating system, a BIOS and firmware. The gathered metadata can be processed to update a finite state machine to indicate a state of the node and/or to detect a change in state of the node.

Methods and apparatus for monitoring and auditing nodes using metadata gathered by an in-memory process

A data storage system comprises a storage array and an associated indexer that may be implemented in whole or in part within the storage array. The storage array comprises storage devices and a controller. The indexer associated with the storage array is configured to generate indexes over data stored in the storage array. The controller comprises a query processing control point configured to utilize the indexes generated by the indexer to accelerate execution of queries directed to the data stored in the storage array. The indexes may be stored in a high-speed memory of the storage array, such as flash memory. The queries executed in the storage array may comprise analytic queries that would otherwise normally be executed in an analytic data store external to the storage array. By providing index-based processing of the queries within the storage array, query processing throughput of the data storage system is substantially improved.

Accelerated query execution within a storage array

A method, system, and program, product for managing scanning of databases in data storage system, the method comprising receiving a query request from an application server to a data storage system, scanning data stored in the data storage system and based on the query request, returning a set of data to the application server, wherein the set of data corresponds to the query request.

Managing scanning of databases in data storage systems

A data management system comprises a multi-latency logical data store and an associated controller. The multi-latency logical data store comprises a first data store having a first data latency and a second data store having a second data latency substantially different than the first data latency. The controller is configured to manage the multi-latency logical data store utilizing multi-latency data sets each of which provides at least one multi-latency link between at least a portion of a data set from the first data store and at least a portion of a data set from the second data store. By way of example, the first data store may comprise a low-latency data store and the second data store may comprise an analytic data store having a substantially higher data latency than the low-latency data store. The data management system is implemented using one or more processing devices of a processing platform.

Multi-latency data management

Information processing techniques for managing data center configurations. In one example, a method comprises the following steps. A registry is maintained corresponding to at least one of products and services offered by a provider entity for use in providing a data center for a customer entity. A central interface is provided for presenting information maintained in the registry and for presenting one or more features operative to allow the customer entity to create and/or change a configuration of the data center. The central interface comprises one or more features for obtaining at least one of the data center products and services, one or more features for configuring the obtained one of the data center products and services, and one or more features for managing the configured one of the data center products and services. Accordingly, the customer obtains a customized data center configuration through the central interface and the registry.

Dynamic service and registry for management infrastructure

A computer implemented method, system and product for transferring information between systems of record connected to a bus comprising generating an event in response a change in a system of record of the systems of record; transforming the change event into a generic event at an adapter for the system of record, wherein the adapter is communicatively coupled to the system of record and the bus; conveying the generic event to the bus from the adapter; reasoning on the generic event to determine if at least some information of the generic event should be propagated to another system of record; based on a positive determination, using a policy based system of record information filter to determine what information of the event to send to the another system of record, and propagating at least some of the information of the generic event in a new event to another adapter communicatively coupled to the another system of record; and translating the new event, at the adapter, to an event able to be understood by the another system of record.

Heterogeneous data from multiple sources

A computer program product, system, and computer implemented method comprising intercepting, by an interceptor, IO send on an IO path to a storage array; sending a copy of the IO and metadata to a message bus, and enabling a consumer to register with the message bus to consume events sent to the message bus.

Storage governance

A reasoning system is configured to interact with data processing elements of an information processing system. The reasoning system includes a reasoning module configured to perform one or more reasoning operations on metadata. The metadata characterizes data sets associated with the data processing elements in order to identify at least selected portions of one or more of the data sets as being suitable for use in achieving a designated purpose. The reasoning system also includes a dynamic information assembly module configured to utilize results of the one or more reasoning operations to assemble at least a subset of the selected portions so as to achieve the designated purpose. The reasoning system and associated data processing elements may be implemented, by way of example, in cloud infrastructure of a cloud service provider, or on another type of processing platform.

Dynamic information assembly for designated purpose based on suitability reasoning over metadata

Embodiments of the invention relate to implementing management policy in a computer system. The management policy may be applied to a first content unit by using metadata associated with first content unit to manage storage of or access to the first content unit. The metadata associated with the first content unit may be stored in a second content unit that includes in its content, an identifier that identifies the first content unit.

Managing content in a distributed system

A multi-tenancy adapter is configured to provide an interface between a plurality of tenants and a service provider product that is shared by those tenants. The multi-tenancy adapter in one embodiment comprises a plurality of tenant-specific mashup functions or other service composition functions associated with respective ones of the plurality of tenants. In conjunction with receipt of a service request from a given one of the plurality of tenants, the multi-tenancy adapter generates a corresponding request directed to the product, applies the particular service composition function associated with the given tenant in order to filter response information received back from the product in a manner specific to that tenant, and provides the filtered response information to the given tenant.

Adapting service provider products for multi-tenancy using tenant-specific service composition functions

In one aspect, an apparatus for integrating dynamic recognition of complex events with case-based processing comprises at least one processing platform. The processing platform comprises at least one server, computer or other processing device having a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform implements a plurality of modules for integration of dynamic recognition of complex events with case-based processing, the modules comprising at least a complex event processing module and a case-based processing module coupled to the complex event processing module. Event recognition in the complex event processing module triggers one or more case-based activities in the case-based processing module. The plurality of modules may further include an event preprocessing module, a proactive risk assessment and forecasting module, and a temporal associative reasoning module.

Method, apparatus and system for integrating dynamic recognition of complex events with case-based processing

Methods and apparatus are provided for securing communications between a node and a server, for example, during a boot process. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a method is provided for securing communications between a node and a server, comprising: dynamically gathering hardware-related metadata for the node using a process running in memory; generating a unique identifier for the node using the hardware-related metadata; generating a public/private key pair for the node using the unique identifier; and securing communications between the node and the server using the public/private key pair. The process comprises, for example, an in-memory microkernel executing on a boot node. The hardware-related metadata comprises, for example, information about physical characteristics of the node. The unique identifier for the node can optionally be further based on information obtained from a Trusted Processing Module. The node can be authenticated using the public/private key pair.

Methods and apparatus for securing communications between a node and a server based on hardware metadata gathered by an in-memory process

A data set manager is configured to interact with data processing elements of an information processing system. The data set manager comprises a metadata capture module configured to access or otherwise obtain metadata characterizing data sets associated with the data processing elements, a reasoning module configured to perform one or more reasoning operations on the metadata, and an action recommendation module configured to identify one or more recommended actions for the data processing elements based at least in part on results of the reasoning operations. The metadata characterizes properties of the data sets and relationships among the data sets, and may be defined in accordance with at least one of a specified ontology and a specified class. The data set manager and associated data processing elements may be implemented, by way of example, in cloud infrastructure of a cloud service provider, or on another type of processing platform.

Managing data sets by reasoning over captured metadata

In an information management system, multiple models are utilized to characterize stored information. A query directed to the stored information is received, and at least one contextual indicator is extracted, inferred or otherwise determined from the received query. The contextual indicator determined from the received query is applied to a meta-model that includes linkages between attributes of respective ones of the multiple models, where each of the linkages comprises one or more associated contextual properties, in order to generate a transformed meta-model specifying an authoritative policy result for processing the query responsive to the contextual indicator. The query is then processed in accordance with the authoritative policy result specified in the transformed meta-model.

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John Daniel Hushon