International Business Machines Corporation

Rudiger Rissmann

Li Xiao

Birgit Monika Pfitzmann

Chi Zhang

Michael Elton Nidd

Florian Graf

Gerhard A Widmayer

Shao Yang Yu

Min Xiang

In one approach, one or more computer processors provision an instance in a cloud computing environment, wherein the instance includes one or more local disks. The one or more computer processors boot the instance from a boot image such that an operating system exists in a main memory of the instance. The one or more computer processors copy an image file to the one or more local disks of the instance, where copying the image file overwrites the one or more local disks. The one or more computer processors reboot the instance.

Migrating servers into a secured environment

Growing community of inventors

Zurich, Switzerland

Rudiger Rissmann