International Business Machines Corporation

Michael Tacci

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Matthew A Markley

John K Baker

Steve N Lee

Bruce G Taylor

Tylon O Willingham

Ronda L Caswell

Richard Keith Athey

Nikolai A Joukov

Kun Bai

Maja Vukovic

Jinho Hwang

Murthy V Devarakonda

Norbert George Vogl

Michael Elton Nidd

Mark Edward Podlaseck

Christian Benjamin Kau

Kamal Bhattacharya

Jill L Jermyn

Lawrence H Thompson

Louis E Aiken

Robert P Boettcher

Timothy P Kane, Sr

Anthony G D Walker

A system and method for information technology (IT) migration includes determining a relationship among objects to be migrated such that the relationship includes a set of objects having at least one of a common feature or dependency between the objects in the set. The objects are grouped into a plurality of migration waves such that cross-wave relationships are minimized among the plurality of migration waves. The objects are migrated wave by wave.

System and method for object migration using waves

Analytics and visualization for logical dependency mapping of computer servers may be provided. Data collected from computer servers is received and analyzed to discover logical dependencies among the computer servers, for example, to discover communications between one or more of operating systems, middleware and applications associated with the computer servers. The computer servers may be grouped into one or more dependency groups based at least on a user-defined grouping criterion. The one or more dependency groups and their logical dependencies may be output.

Dependency mapping among a system of servers, analytics and visualization thereof

A method and system for discovering dependencies, configurations and utilizations among IT resources are disclosed. A discovery team writes a prediscovery script without requesting credentials and sends it to a system administrator (SA) who already has necessary credentials to execute the prediscovery script. Then, the SA reviews the prediscovery script and executes the prediscovery script on a target server. While or after executing the prediscovery script, the target server generates a result of an execution of the prediscovery script and provides the result to an analysis system. The analysis system analyzes and parses the result and generates a user-friendly data (e.g., graph or spreadsheet) that represents the result. Then, the analysis system provides the user-friendly data to the discovery team. The analysis system does not require credentials and does not directly communicate with the target server except receiving the result of the executed prediscovery script from the target server.

Process and system for comprehensive IT discovery without credentials

A method and a system may automatically compute optimized target resources and identify configurations given discovered source properties and dependencies of machines, while prioritizing performance in the target environment. An algorithm and/or tools for programmatically identifying and locating business application instances in an infrastructure, based on weighted similarity metric may be also provided.

Resource provisioning planning for enterprise migration and automated application discovery

Techniques for unstacking software components are provided. The techniques include discovering a plurality of software components and one or more dependencies between the software components in a computer system, designing a plurality of unstacking options for unstacking said components, and selecting one of said unstacking options to unstack said components.

Unstacking software components for migration to virtualized environments

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