International Business Machines Corporation

Rekha Devi Garapati

David Bruce Lindquist

Bala Rajaraman

Rahul Jain

Zhe Xiang

Noshir Cavas Wadia

Jayashree Subrahmonia

Peng Ye

Velnambi Yogalingam

Kai Gee Hoong Young

Cynthia Ferne Craine

A system and method of deploying software provides for comparing a current software topology of a deployment site to a software deployment topology of an application, wherein the software deployment topology is required to deploy the application. One or more mismatches between the current software topology and the software deployment topology may be identified.

Deployment and deployment planning as a service

Techniques are provided for automating allocation of resources based on business decisions. An impact of a business decision is quantified in terms of information technology (IT) metrics. The resources that may be needed to address the impact are estimated. The estimated resources are provisioned.

Integrating performance, sizing, and provisioning techniques with a business process

A disk image is generated, stored in at least one persistent storage device, comprises at least one software application, and is a root disk image. An inheritance tree comprising a root node associated with the root disk image is created. A new disk image of a disk is generated based on a previously generated disk image associated with a node of the inheritance tree. The new disk image is stored in at least one persistent storage device, and comprises at least one software application of the previously generated disk image and at least one new software application. The new disk image shares at least one data block of the previously generated disk image. A new node is added to the inheritance tree, and is associated with the new disk image. The new node is a child node of the node that is associated with the previously generated disk image.

Disk image inheritance

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Rekha Devi Garapati