International Business Machines Corporation

Mirza S Baig

Li Long Chen

Yan Du

Divyesh Jadav

Nagapramod S Mandagere

Aameek Singh

Brian James Snitzer

Juan F Vargas

Xiao Yang Zhu

Wen Rui Zhao

Li Jun Xia

David D Weck

Paul Lawrence Bradshaw

Dan Lu

Bryan S Langston

Ian R Govett

Yi Zhang

Jun Li Zhao

Phillip Luiz Viana

Robert A Larsen

Ariel Jirau

Jeremy W Chalfant

A method for data configuration is provided. The method comprises parsing a first cascading configuration associated with a data source and selecting content of the first cascading configuration to migrate to a data target. The selected content of the first cascading configuration is then migrated to a second cascading configuration, and the second cascading configuration is applied to the data target.

Cascading data configuration and data migration

Methods, computer program products, systems are provided. The method comprises receiving a request to install an application. A middle-share container corresponding to the application is then created and provisioned upon a shared middleware layer. Middleware components that the application needs are pre-installed and pre-configured in the shared middleware layer.

Shared middleware layer containers

A single service proxy for requesting services from multiple different service vendors with different communication protocols. In this way, a single communication protocol can be used by a service consuming entity to request various services, through the multiple vendor proxy, from various vendors, with the multiple vendor proxy converting the requests into the communication protocol (for example, syntax) appropriate for the vendor from whom the service is being requested on behalf of the service consuming entity.

Multiple vendor services oriented architecture (SOA) service requesting proxy

Methods and systems for container hyperlinking are disclosed. A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a request for a source container; determining, by the computing device, a plurality of recommended target containers corresponding to the source container; displaying, by the computing device, the source container and the plurality of recommended target containers; receiving, by the computing device, a request to link the source container to at least one of the plurality of recommended target containers; and executing an application by dynamically linking the source container and the at least one of the plurality of recommended target containers. Each of the plurality of recommended target containers corresponding to the source container may be determined using information about a popularity of the recommended target container.

Container hyperlinking

One embodiment provides a method, including: generating, for each of a plurality of storage volumes, an actual used storage capacity model and identifying a potential storage capacity savings using the actual used capacity model, wherein each of the plurality of storage volumes has been identified as a candidate for migration to a thin provisioned volume; generating, for each of the plurality of storage volumes, an input/output profile model and identifying a potential change in performance of an application accessing the storage volume using the input/output profile model; generating, for each of the plurality of storage volumes, a growth profile and identifying a potential change in capacity using the growth profile; and determining, using an optimization algorithm, a subset of the plurality of storage volumes to be migrated to thin provisioned volumes based upon the volume capacity model, the performance model, and the volume growth profile.

Identification of volumes for thin provisioning

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Mirza S Baig