Oracle International Corporation

Bea Systems, Inc.

Paul Ferwerda

Peter Bower

Richard P Mousseau

John Herendeen

A system and method can support security management in a computing environment that includes one or more virtualized machines to which one or more applications can be deployed. The system can include a plurality of agents, wherein each agent resides on one of a plurality of machines in the computing environment and operates to manage software processes and resources running in the computing environment. The system also includes a controller that collects data from the plurality of agents about current operating performance of the computing environment, and uses the data gathered to enforce policies and to deploy services in a way that honors one or more service level agreements of the deployed services. Furthermore, the communication between each of the plurality of agents and the controller can be secured with a mutual authentication method, and the communication between an agent and an application is secured with a one-way authentication method.

System and method of security management for a virtual environment

A system and method can deploy and manage software services in virtualized and non-virtualized environments. The system provides an enterprise application virtualization solution that allows for centralized governance and control over software and Java applications. The system uses a plurality of agents to manage the software processes and resources running in the computing environment. The system also uses a controller to collect data from the agents about the current operating performance of the computing environment and to deploy the services in a way that best honors the service level agreements of all deployed services. The communication between each of the plurality of agents and the controller is secured with a mutual authentication method.

A connection management system can achieve scalability for domain computing among a plurality of domains. Each of the plurality of domains comprises a collection of machines and resources that are administrated as a unit. A connection concentrator can connect, and support communication between, a plurality of processes in a first domain and a plurality of processes in a second domain. The connection concentrator uses one connection to communicate with any one of the plurality of processes in the first domain, and can communicate with each one of the plurality of processes in the second domain.

System and method for achieving scalability in domain computing

A system and method for concentration and load-balancing of requests in a distributed computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a system and a method for reducing the number of connections in an Internet environment using one or a plurality of connection handlers which handle the connection from the client to the server, and a listener which determines which connection handler to use to handle the connection. Whereas prior solutions required a (n&#xd7;m) number of connections to handle requests, the invention allows there to be only m connections which significantly reduces resource requirements and allows scalability.

System and method for concentration and load-balancing of requests

A system and a method for reducing the number of Object Request Broker (ORB) connections in an Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) or similar distributed computing environment. The system reduces the total number of connections needed between the clients and the servers. Embodiments include an intelligent concentrator process for requests going from within a domain to outside of the domain. The concentrator can allow concentration by ensuring that multiple requests from within the domain use the same actual connection for their requests to an object implementation outside of the domain.

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