International Business Machines Corporation

Michael S McKay

Samar Choudhary

Charles David Brant

John Michael Garrison

Michael John Garrison

Richard Adam King

Georg Ochs

Jeremias Werner

Jacob Andrew Kitchener

Alexander D Lewitt

In an approach, a process intercepts a deployment resource associated with software prior to deploying the software to a node, where the deployment resource configures how the software is deployed and operates. A processor verifies authenticity of a digital signature present within the deployment resource. A processor, responsive to verifying the authenticity of the digital signature, deploys the software to the node in accordance with the deployment resource.

Enforcement of signatures for software deployment configuration

Embodiments of the present invention and provide a method for distributed virtual machine (VM) image management in a cloud computing management includes receiving in a hypervisor executing in memory of a host computer, a request for VM image data from a VM and determining whether or not the requested VM image data is present in a local cache of either the hypervisor of the host computer or in a cache of a hypervisor of a peer host. The method additionally includes retrieving the requested VM image data from a seed image in a remote data store in the cloud computing environment only when it is determined that the VM image data neither is present in the local cache of the hypervisor of the host computer nor is present in the cache of the hypervisor of the peer host.

Distributed virtual machine image management for cloud computing

A metadata file can be automatically generated based on a database instance and a user defined maximum depth. The relationships between data objects that constitute a business object may be visualized in a tree. The maximum depth limits the number of levels in the tree to traverse. A metadata file describes the structure of a business object and relationships between sets of data objects that constitute the business object. The structure defined in the metadata file can be used to export instances of the business object from the database. The exported business object instances can be imported to another database.

Exporting and importing business objects based on metadata

A method simplified drag and drop operations of display icons. This method calculates a projected path for an icon based on the past movement of the icon. The method highlights the 'best fit' target icon as the mouse pointer moves across the screen. As the mouse pointer moves, or changes direction, the 'best fit' target icon can change, with the current best-fit icon being highlighted. In addition to highlighting the target icon, a line or arrow from the mouse pointer to the target icon is maintained. The line presents the predicted path in a very noticeable, visual way. As the best-fit target icon changes, the line is re-drawn to point to the current best-fit icon. Regardless of how the target icon is visually indicated, releasing the mouse button will cause the drop operation to be completed &#x201c;into&#x201d; target. Completion of the drop could be instantaneous, or could be rendered with animation of some sort to indicate moving from the source to the target.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Michael S McKay