Emc Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Patricia Florissi

Sudhir Vijendra

Amanuel Ronen Artzi

Jeffrey A Schriesheim

Danilo Florissi

William Z Zahavi

Shai Benjamin

Lida He

William F Kuhhirte

Jerry Y Goldman

A computer system-based method and system for modeling, planning and analyzing distributed systems in view of environmental considerations in the deployment of said distributed system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of a plurality of components and relationships among selected components with said distributed system, wherein said representation includes attributes and characteristics associated with environmental considerations, identifying a location of each of said selected components in said distributed system determining an environmental aspect of each of said identified locations, and providing a recommendation based on said environmental aspects. In one aspect of the invention, an analysis is performed that determines a cause of changes in environmental conditions and a recommendation is made to correct the cause of the environment changes. In another aspect of the invention an analysis may be performed that considers environmental aspects in adjusting economic consideration for storing data in a data center.

Method and apparatus for providing environmental management in distributed system data centers

A method, apparatus and computer product for modeling and analyzing additional services incorporated into a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) configuration composed of a plurality of components is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of the plurality of components and relationships among the selected components, wherein said component representations are selected from the group of configuration non-specific representations consisting of: VoIP VoiceMailService, VoIPVoiceConferenceService, ITServices, ERPServices, CRMServices, WebServices and SupportServices, and wherein the representations of relationships are selected from the group of configuration non-specific representations consisting of: HostedBy/HostsServices and Integrates/IntegratedIn, providing a mapping between a plurality of first events and a plurality of second events occurring in the selected components, the mapping representing the relationships along which the first events propagate among the selected components, and determining at least one first event based on at least one of the plurality of second events by determining a measure between each of a plurality of relationship values associated with the plurality of first events and the plurality of second events.

Method and apparatus for management and analysis of services in VoIP networks

A method, apparatus and computer-program product for logically representing and analyzing a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in a plurality of functional representation layers is disclosed. The method, which is typical of the invention, comprises the steps of representing selected physical and logical components of said VPN as a plurality of configuration non-specific objects determined for each said functional representation layers, organizing selected ones of said objects within selected ones of said functional representation layers, wherein said object are selected from the group consisting of: VPNService, ServiceConnectionPath, ForwarderEndpoint, TunnelGroup, Tunnel, TunnelHop, TunnelIn/Out, SignalingProtocolEndpoint, SignalingProtocollSession and SignalingProtocolService, representing relationships among said physical and logical components as configuration non-specific representations within and among said functional representation layers, wherein Endpoint objects provide communication among said functional representation layers, which are among a group of Service, Service connection, Transport and Protocol layers.

Layered approach for representing and analyzing virtual private network services

A method, apparatus and computer-program product for modeling distributed systems is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of a plurality of physical and logical elements as a plurality of objects, organizing the selected ones of the objects within each of the plurality of model layers, the model layers representing at least one function of the distributed network, determining behavioral relationships among objects within each of the model layers and determining behavioral relationships among selected ones of the objects among each of the model layers, said selected objects representing layer endpoints, wherein information between model layers is passed through said layer endpoints. The apparatus recites a processor for performing the steps of the disclosed method and the computer-program product provides code or instruction to a processor for executing the disclosed method steps.

Method and apparatus for horizontal and vertical modeled representation and analysis of distributed systems

A method and apparatus are provided for multi-realm system modeling (MRSM) for dividing systems into components, defining realms containing objects representing system components, defining relationships between the system components, defining relationships and/or associations between realms sufficient to unify objects in the realms, and unifying objects in the realms based on the relationships and/or associations.

Method and apparatus for multi-realm system modeling

A method, apparatus and computer product for modeling and analyzing performance of a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) configuration, composed of a plurality of components, is disclosed. The method comprises the step of representing selected ones of the plurality of components and relationships among the selected components, wherein said component representations are selected from the group of configuration non-specific representations consisting of: VoIP-DHCP Service, VoIP-CallOperation Service, VoIP_Signaling Service, VoIP_MediaGateway Service and VoIP_SIP Service, and wherein the representations of relationships are selected from the group of configuration non-specification representations consisting of: Hostedby/HostsServices and Integrates/IntegratedIn, providing a mapping between a plurality of first events and a plurality of second events occurring in the selected components, the mapping representing the relationships along which the first events propagate among the selected components, and determining at least one first event based on at least one of the plurality of second events by determining a measure between each of a plurality of relationship values associated with the plurality of first events and the plurality of second events.

Method and apparatus for analysis of VoIP network performance

A method, device and computer product suitable for performing an analysis on a Grid Computer Network (GCN) is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of a plurality of components and a relationship among the components in the GCN, providing a mapping between a plurality of events and a plurality of observable events occurring among the components, wherein the mapping is represented as a value associating each event with each observable event, and determining at least one likely causing event based on at least one of the plurality of observable events by determining a measure between each of a plurality of values associated with the plurality of observable events and the plurality of causing events. The step of representing the GCN, comprises the steps of creating at least one non-specific representation of the selected components, wherein the non-specific representations are selected from the group consisting of ComputeElement, GridService and GridServiceInstance, and creating at least one non-specification representation of relations along which the events propagate amongst the selected components, wherein the representations of relations are selected from the group consisting of ComposedOf, Part of, HostedBy, and HostsServices. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising a processor and a computer program product providing computer instruction to a computing system for executing the method steps described herein.

Method and apparatus for analyzing and problem reporting in grid computing networks

A method, system and computer product for performing a system analysis of a surveillance network containing a plurality of components. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of the plurality of components, providing a mapping between a plurality of observable events and a plurality of causing events occurring in components, wherein the observable events are at least associated with each of the at least one components, and determining at least one likely causing event based on at least one of the plurality of observable events by determining a measure between each of a plurality of values associated with the plurality of observable events and the plurality of causing events.

Method and apparatus for representing, managing and problem reporting in surveillance networks

A method and apparatus for representing a network and performing operations on the represented network are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of creating at least one configuration non-specific object class associated with components of the network, creating at least one configuration non-specific representation of relationships among associated object classes, representing a behavior relationship among the object classes based on the representations of the relationships among the object classes and analyzing properties of the network based on the behavior relationships. In aspects of the invention, the represented network may be an MPLS network, a VPN or a combined MPLS-VPN.

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