International Business Machines Corporation

Symantec Corporation

Bmc Software, Inc.

Symantec Operating Corporation

Bladelogic, Inc.

Neeran Mohan Karnik

Arun Kumar

Vikas Agarwal

Abhijit Sharma

Girish Bhimrao Chafle

Abhay Ghaisas

Manish Satyapal Gupta

Pradeep Varma

Abhay Ghasisas

Ashish Kundu

Subhojit Roy

Anindya Banerjee

Sugata Ghosal

Akshat Verma

Vijay Mann

Alaa Salah Youssef

Navin Kabra

Basant Rajan

Mangala Gowri Nanda

Nilesh Avinash Phadke

Joseph A Scarpelli

Sunil Chandra

Bijayalaxmi Nanda

Sameer Pokarna

Nitin Maini

Johara Shireen Shahabuddin

Biraja Sankar Mahapatra

Ruby Arora

Rakesh Dhoopar

Guriqbal Singh

An information technology (IT) asset management system provides for logically grouping IT assets and performing actions on the logical groups. Cluster analysis techniques are used to analyze the configuration data corresponding to IT assets in the IT asset management system, generating proposed logical groups from the clusters determined by the cluster analysis techniques. A system administrator may be allowed to accept or reject the proposed logical groups.

Auto-suggesting IT asset groups using clustering techniques

A system includes a runbook manager configured to generate a runbook governing future server provisioning jobs, based on analyzed job history. The runbook manager includes a history analyzer configured to analyze a job history for a plurality of provisioning jobs performed to provision a plurality of servers, to thereby obtain the analyzed job history.

Server provisioning based on job history analysis

The embodiments provide a data processing apparatus for automated blueprint assembly. The data processing apparatus includes a micro-blueprint assembler configured to receive a request for automated blueprint assembly for assembling an application, where the request specifies at least one feature, and a model database configured to store model data. The model data includes a plurality of classes and class properties. The data processing apparatus further includes a micro-blueprint database configured to store a plurality of micro-blueprints. Each micro-blueprint corresponds to a functional component of a stack element or service tier, and the functional component is annotated with one or more classes of the plurality of classes and at least one required capability and available capability. The micro-blueprint assembler is configured to generate at least one application blueprint based on the model data and the plurality of micro-blueprints according to the request.

Automated blueprint assembly for assembling an application

The system may include a troubleshooting activity recorder configured to record troubleshooting sessions. Each troubleshooting session may include a sequence of queries and query results. The troubleshooting activity recorder may include a query transformer configured to transform the queries and the query results into transformed queries and transformed query results before recording the troubleshooting sessions. The troubleshooting activity recorder may be configured to record the transformed queries and the transformed query results as troubleshooting session information in a troubleshooting activity database. The system may include a troubleshooting pattern learning unit including a graph builder configured to generate a troubleshooting pattern graph having query nodes and links between the query nodes based on the troubleshooting session information.

Adaptive learning of effective troubleshooting patterns

A method and apparatus for detecting malicious software activity, using at least one processor, based on an Internet resource information database in memory is described. In one embodiment, a method for detecting malicious software activity, using at least one processor, based on an Internet resource information database in memory includes processing Internet activity to determine source and time information associated with at least one application download, comparing the Internet resource information database with the source and time information associated with the at least one application download to identify at least one suspicious application, and monitoring execution of the at least one suspicious application.

Method and apparatus for detecting malicious software activity based on an internet resource information database

Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic messages. A method embodiment for managing electronic messages includes processing message content of an electronic message with an automated content classification module to determine a classification for the electronic message; and applying a security policy to the electronic message in dependence upon the classification. The classification module may be configured for a particular sender. The security policy may be configured for a particular receiver. The system may associate the classification with the electronic message. The system may train the classification module. The electronic message may be an email message, an instant message, a text message, or a message sent in the context of a social networking platform. The security policy may include a display policy or a filtering policy.

Managing electronic messages

Apparatus, methods and computer programs provided for metering and accounting in a commercial e-services infrastructure address the requirement for handling composite services in which higher-level services are built using simpler underlying services, each of which may be autonomously owned and operated. Metering records for each service underlying a composite service are correlated by a process associated with the composite service, and then sent to an accounting service where they can be aggregated. The correlation is performed in a distributed manner with correlated usage data provided on a per-request basis. Accounting services can take account of the usage and charges associated with the underlying services to provide accounting and billing on a per-request basis or per customer-provider pair for a billing period.

Apparatus, methods and computer programs for metering and accounting for services accessed over a network

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system and technique for preprovisioning virtual machines is disclosed. The system includes a processing system configured to receiving requests for network computing resources and having a virtual machine (VM) manager configured to: analyze the requests and identify each different virtual machine configuration, each VM configuration having a plurality of configuration attributes; determine a request frequency corresponding to each requested VM configuration; determine a configuration of each provisioned VM on the network; responsive to determining the configuration of each provisioned VM, predict a configuration for a preprovisioned VM likely to be requested based on the frequency of the requested VM configurations and the configurations of the provisioned VMs; and create the preprovisioned VM on the network.

Preprovisioning virtual machines based on request frequency and current network configuration

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for preprovisioning virtual machines is disclosed. The method includes analyzing requests for a plurality of different virtual machine (VM) configurations where each VM configuration has a plurality of configuration attributes. The method also includes determining a request frequency corresponding to each requested VM configuration, determining a configuration of each provisioned VM, and responsive to determining the configuration of each provisioned VM, determining a configuration for a preprovisioned VM based on a request frequency of the different VM configurations and the configurations of the provisioned VMs. The method further includes creating the preprovisioned VM.

A method and apparatus for providing a utility based revenue stream for a security software subscription at a client computer is provided. In one embodiment, the method for providing a utility based revenue stream for a security software subscription at a client computer comprises analyzing a security activity log based on a utility metric to produce an analysis result and determining a value for the security software subscription based on the analysis result.

Method and apparatus for providing a utility-based model for security software revenue generation

A method and apparatus for generating computer configuration rules comprising receiving configuration data regarding a plurality of computers, analyzing the configuration data to determine associations within the configuration data, and generating configuration rules from a result of the analysis.

Method and apparatus for generating configuration rules for computing entities within a computing environment using association rule mining

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Neeran Mohan Karnik