International Business Machines Corporation

John T Flynn

Balakrishna Raghavendra Iyer

Vahit Hakan Hacigumus

Lu Nguyen

Dante Aligheri Aubert

Sanjoy Das

Steven Daryl Cook

Vikas Ahluwalia

Brian You

A computer readable medium and system for remotely monitoring activity includes generating first server heartbeat information at a first server at a local site, and storing the first server heartbeat information in a first primary site disk at the local site. The method also includes sending the first server heartbeat information from the first primary site disk, to a first secondary site disk at a remote site. The method further includes receiving information from a 10 second secondary site disk at the local site, and determining if the information received from the second secondary site disk includes updated heartbeat information.

Computer readable medium and system for remote activity monitoring

A system and method for providing an integrated storage appliance is disclosed. The storage appliance includes a storage subsystem, a process cluster coupled to the storage subsystem, and a customizable software stack that includes storage-access application so executed by the processor cluster, wherein subsystem, processor cluster and software stack are integrated such that the storage appliance exhibits greater combined reliability, higher availability, and higher serviceability characteristics than would be provided by a sum of the characteristics unintegrated components.

Integrated storage appliance

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John T Flynn