International Business Machines Corporation

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Mahesh Viswanathan

Ruchi Mahindru

Dimitri Kanevsky

Soumitra Sarkar

Roberto Sicconi

Harigovind Venkatraj Ramasamy

Richard Edwin Harper

Valentina Salapura

Norbert George Vogl

Liam David Comerford

Rafah A Hosn

Baiju Dhirajlal Mandalia

Michael Man Behrendt

Robert K Floyd, Iii

Robert P Monaco

Anca Sailer

Vito Losacco

Andrzej Nazaruk

Maciej Wielgus

Alain Charles Louis Tritschler

Ashish Kundu

David Nahamoo

Ajay Mohindra

Andrzej P Kochut

Hidayatullah Habeebullah Shaikh

Long Wang

Homayoon Sadr Mohammad Beigi

Sambit Sahu

Yu Deng

Thomas E Chefalas

Alexei A Karve

Jarir Kamel Chaar

Gerd Breiter

Charles Otto Schulz

Maria Elena Smith

Alexander Faisman

David Carl Frank

Arthur Ray Roberts

Jie Z Zeng

Burn Lewin Lewis

Philip Gleason

Robert W Peverly

L Corning Lahey

Leonid Rachevksy

Joseph Simon Reisinger

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Clifford A Pickover

Christopher J Dawson

Maja Vukovic

Yu Gu

Bo Yang

Naresh Nayar

Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Jing Min Xu

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Murthy V Devarakonda

Jiri Navratil

Salman Abdul Baset

Ramesh Ambat Gopinath

Hai Huang

Chunqiang Tang

Florian Graf

Michael Reuben Head

Brendan F Coffey

Gene L Brown

Sabine V Deligne

Anthony Franke Stuart

Ronald L Heiney

Fereydoun Maali

Niranjan Srinivasan

Arvind Sathi

Harigovind Ramasamy

Jigar Navanitrai Kapasi

Suraj Subramanian

Ashu Gupta

Scott Shaobing Chen

Uttam Thakore

Cuong Manh Pham

Rajesh Garg

Waldemar Jackiewicz

Robert Sicconi

Robin C Arnold

Mohamed Fazal Mohamed Feroze

Sumithra Ravichandran

MadhuSudhan Kagalavadi Ningaiah

William Kroeschel

A method, computer program product, and computer system for prioritization of data collection and analysis for incident detection. Data points within a plurality of monitor data corresponding to effects of incidents may be identified by a computing device. The plurality of monitor data may be converted to a set of time series extracted from the plurality of monitor data. The set of time series may be aligned and summarized. A causal relationship graph may be constructed between the set of time series extracted from the plurality of monitor data. Features may be prioritized by likelihood of importance in incident analysis based upon, at least in part, the causal relationship graph.

Prioritization of data collection and analysis for incident detection

A computer-implemented method includes receiving a template for creating a virtual machine (VM) instance; separating the template into a repeated portion and a unique portion; determining whether the repeated portion is stored in a cache; creating based on determining that the repeated portion is stored in the cache, the VM instance using the repeated portion stored in the cache; completing the unique portion of the VM instance to create a completed VM instance; and deploying the completed VM instance.

Expediting the provisioning of virtual machines based on cached repeated portions of a template

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for switching between software agents. A first software agent communicatively coupled to a host device and at least one server may be identified. A configuration file associated with the first software agent may be transformed for operation with a second software agent. The first software agent may be switched to the second software agent in response to transforming the configuration file associated with the first software agent.

System and method for live migration for software agents

An approach for sharing an asset in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network is provided. After a computer sends a request to a new node for a new subscription and prior to the computer receiving the new subscription, the new node requests a digital certificate or permission from a user. The new node receives the digital certificate or permission. The new node determines a number of P2P connections in the network does not exceed a threshold amount and determines that no bandwidth degradation exists in the network. Responsive to receiving the digital certificate or permission, determining the number of P2P connections does not exceed the threshold, and determining that no bandwidth degradation exists in the network, the new node transfers the asset to the computer and updates a local list of nodes authorized to receive assets shared by the new node by adding an identification of the computer.

Asset sharing within an enterprise using a peer-to-peer network

A system for managing cloud-based resources. The system includes a computer interface for receiving a computing resource. A computer including at least one central processing unit is configured to determine that the computing resource is abandoned and, upon determining the computer resource is abandoned, determine a disposition action for the computing resource.

Reuse of computing resources for cloud managed services

Provisioning and management of virtual machines and shared processor pools to process the virtual machines is provided. Shared processor pool(s) of processing units are established on server(s) of a cluster. The shared processor pool(s) are to process virtual machines to execute an application for which licensing cost is determined based on a number of processing units used to process the virtual machines executing the application. Provision of the virtual machines into the shared processor pool(s) and assignment of the processing units to the shared processor pool(s) is managed, which controls the number of processing units dedicated to processing the virtual machines executing the application, to thereby control licensing costs of executing the application. The managing can provision at least two virtual machines for different tenants into a common shared processor pool of the one or more shared processor pools.

Provisioning virtual machines to optimize application licensing costs

A system, a computer readable storage medium, and a method for determining a suggested component restart order in a computer system on a basis of one or more heuristic analyses of a plurality of input data. The method can include performing one or more sort or merge orders after one or more of each heuristic analysis, combining the one or more sort orders according to a weighting algorithm, generating a recovery dependency graph between each of the components of the computer system, and presenting the recovery dependency graph.

Heuristic process for inferring resource dependencies for recovery planning

A method of automatic security parameter renewal includes determining if the security parameter satisfies a renewal condition, the determining including automatically detecting a time when a security parameter is going to expire, and automatically updating the security parameter when the renewal condition is satisfied. The automatically updating the security parameter includes modifying a certificate upon receipt of a new certificate.

Automatic security parameter management and renewal

An approach for regional firewall clustering for optimal state-sharing of different sites in a virtualized/networked (e.g., cloud) computing environment is provided. In a typical embodiment, each firewall in a given region is informed of its peer firewalls via a registration process with a centralized server. Each firewall opens up an Internet protocol (IP)-based communication channel to each of its peers in the region to share state table information. This allows for asymmetrical firewall flows through the network and allows routing protocols to ascertain the best path to a given destination without having to take firewall placement into consideration.

Regional firewall clustering in a networked computing environment

Methods, systems, and computer program products for storage system-based replication for disaster recovery in virtualized environments are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes identifying, among multiple storage aggregation units within a virtualized environment, one or more of the storage aggregation units to undergo a change in disaster recovery replication status from (i) enabled to disabled or (ii) disabled to enabled; determining one of multiple mechanisms to execute the change in disaster recovery replication status for each of the identified storage aggregation units by (i) implementing an optimization algorithm to each of the multiple mechanisms and (ii) identifying the one of the multiple mechanisms that minimizes data copy overhead based on the optimization algorithm; and executing the change in disaster recovery replication status for each of the identified storage aggregation units within the virtualized environment in accordance with the one of the multiple mechanisms that minimizes data copy overhead.

Storage system-based replication for disaster recovery in virtualized environments

A method to generate an executable orchestration process includes: querying a user to enter first computer code for activating a service; querying the user to enter second computer code for undoing actions performed in the activating; loading pre-defined third computer code for determining whether the activated service is a success or has an error, based on the service; loading pre-defined fourth computer code for correcting the error; generating an executable orchestration function from the first through fourth computer code; and generating the orchestration process from the executable orchestration function.

Orchestration process template for generation of orchestration process to tolerate errors

A method and system for teaching an object of a deictic reference to a machine. A processor of the machine teaches the object of the deictic reference to the machine which results in the machine learning the object. The teaching includes: the processor finds an item in a region indicated by a physical pointing gesture, by the user, that points to the object; the processor shines a laser light on the item and in response, the processor receives a negative spoken indication from the user that the item shined on by the laser light is not the object; in response to the negative spoken indication from the user, the processor interacts with the user in an iterative procedure wherein the machine learns the object in a final iteration of the procedure. The processor stores the learned object in a storage repository.

User-guided teaching an object of a deictic reference to a machine

A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a template for creating a virtual machine (VM) instance; separating, by the computing device, the template into a repeated portion and a unique portion; determining, by the computing device, whether the repeated portion is stored in a cache; creating, by the computing device and based on determining that the repeated portion is stored in the cache, the VM instance using the repeated portion stored in the cache; completing, by the computing device, the unique portion of the VM instance to create a completed VM instance; and deploying, by the computing device, the completed VM instance.

Embodiments include methods, and computer system, and computer program products for assessing and remediating online servers with minimal impact. Aspects include: duplicating, in real-time at time T, first instance of computer resources of first server into second instance of computer resources of second server, the first instance of computer resources having first instance of operating systems, first instance of applications and first instance of data and the second instance of computer resources having second instance of operating systems, second instance of applications and second instance of data, running assessment and remediation on the second instance of operating systems and applications of the second server, merging the second instance of data of the second server with the first instance of data of the first server, and swapping the identities of the first instance of computer resources of the first server and the second instance of computer resources of the second server.

Methods and systems for assessing and remediating online servers with minimal impact

Methods, systems, and computer program products for black box techniques for detecting performance and availability issues in virtual machines exploiting hardware assisted virtualization are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes capturing multiple hardware assisted virtualization exit calls generated in connection with a given virtual machine; calculating one or more virtual machine performance metrics attributed to the given virtual machine based on the multiple hardware assisted virtualization exit calls; determining one or more virtual machine performance issues and/or one or more virtual machine availability issues attributed to the given virtual machine based on the one or more calculated virtual machine performance metrics; and outputting an alert identifying the one or more determined virtual machine performance issues and/or the one or more virtual machine availability issues attributed to the given virtual machine.

Black box techniques for detecting performance and availability issues in virtual machines

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