Dell Products Inc.

Rene Herrero

James S Watt, Jr

Mark D Owens

Kareemullah Khan Fazal

Frank DiRosa

Yongliang Li

Douglas Braga De Alencar

Douglas Alencar

Everton Schäfer

Poul C Frederiksen

Rashmi Krishnamurthy

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for management of a distributed web application firewall (WAF) cluster that supports one or more protected applications. A WAF cluster infrastructure is configured for the protected applications. The WAF cluster includes one or more WAFs that are used to route traffic directed to the protected applications. The WAF cluster infrastructure is validated as to be current and updated. The validated WAF cluster infrastructure is then used as routing service.

System of a distributed web application firewall cluster

A web application firewall (WAF) receives an application request from a router, wherein the application request is directed to a web application, and wherein the web application firewall is associated with the web application. The WAF updates the application request to include a first header, wherein the first header includes a copy of a uniform resource locator of the application request, and updates the uniform resource locator to indicate an address of the web application firewall. The WAF analyzes the application request to determine whether the application request is secure, wherein the analysis is based on a rule, and in response to a determination that the application request is secure, updates the application request to include a second header, wherein the second header includes an encrypted signature.

System and method for implementing a web application firewall as a customized service

A workload optimization system includes a workload manager subsystem that provides a plurality of workloads that each generates a jobs, an agent infrastructure subsystem that includes a first container host hosting a first container having a first agent and that processes jobs generated by at least one of the plurality of workloads, and a workload resource optimization subsystem that monitors a job queue of jobs that were generated by the plurality of workloads and that are to be processed by the first container. The workload resource optimization subsystem then determines whether the job queue satisfies a container generation condition. If so, the workload resource optimization subsystem provides instructions to the first container host to generate a second container that includes a second agent. The workload resource optimization subsystem monitors container host utilization to provide instructions to activate a second container host to provide a third container having a third agent.

Workload optimization system

A method includes receiving, at a software-defined load balancer in a software-defined networking (SDN) application platform from a given one of a plurality of client devices, a request for access to a given application hosted in the SDN application platform. The method also includes obtaining, from a routing database, a set of contextual routing rules for directing requests to the given application to two or more different versions of the given application hosted in the SDN application platform. The method further includes analyzing the request to determine application context information, selecting one of the two or more different versions of the given application to serve the request utilizing the application context information and the set of contextual routing rules, and providing the given client device with access to the selected version of the given application hosted in the software-defined networking application platform in response to the request.

Contextual routing for directing requests to different versions of an application

A software package retention system that uses pre-defined rules to retain software packages based on how the packages are used, and not merely based on a package's date/time of creation (age) or type. A retention policy server in the system integrates with the build, deployments, and artifact storage systems of a software supplier/vendor to ensure appropriate retentions are met for audit and regulatory compliance and unneeded artifacts or packages are purged to save storage space and lower operational costs. The server has the capability to monitor software deployments to the customer and to developer test environments, and to make rule-based decisions on when and how to run retention policy clean-up jobs and on what packages. With increasing reliance on frequent build and release of software packages across the software industry, package management post-release using the rule-based retention policy provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for legal compliance with retention requirements.

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Rene Herrero