Dell Products Inc.

Srinivasa Ragavan Rajagopalan

Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel

Vivekanandh Narayanasamy Rajagopalan

Vivek Viswanathan Iyer

Ankit Kumar

Shailesh Jain

Anantha K Boyapalle

Ramanujam Kaniyar Venkatesh

Jyothi Bandakka

Andy A Yiu

Jyothi Bandakka Nanjappa

Ravi Vijaykumar Vanjani

Ramanaa H V

A peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator information handling system comprises a network interface device to receive maximum and current hardware resource availabilities and for a first anchor information handling system node and other peripheral device nodes operatively coupled at an identified location to form a defined peripheral device workspace that also includes a second information handling system node or a smart peripheral device node, and a hardware processor to execute code instructions to determine a ranking score for the first and second information handling systems, and smart peripheral device, based on the maximum and current hardware resource availabilities to determine which one of the second information handling system or the smart peripheral device associated with a highest ranking score is to transition to implement transmitted peripheral device operational configuration policies or firmware or software updates at each of the plurality of peripheral devices.

System and method for adaptive configuration and firmware update ownership across nodes of a peripheral device workspace based on real-time assessment of node capabilities and capacity

Adaptive display association and placement for secure workspaces in a multi-display environment is provided. A secure workspace display manager can be configured to detect displays available on a user computing device and, in conjunction with a host agent, identify applications that are running inside secure workspaces deployed on the user computing device. The secure workspace display manager can use characteristics of the available displays and an application type of the applications running in the secure workspaces to create application-to-display mappings that will maximize the user experience in the multi-display environment. The secure workspace display manager can then move windows of the applications in accordance with the application-to-display mappings.

Adaptive display association and placement for secure workspaces in a multi-display environment

Synchronizing communication applications, including registering a first instance of a first communication application of a first IHS with a first local communication management computing module of the first IHS; registering a first instance of a second communication application of the first IHS with the first local communication management module; monitoring a status of each of the first instance of the first communication application and the first instance of the second communication application, including: receiving a notification indicating a meeting event associated with the first instance of the first communication application; in response to receiving the notification: accessing a database that indicates, for each communication application, computer-implemented actions that are responsive to the notification of the meeting event; identifying a particular computer-implemented action; performing the particular computer-implemented action at the first instance of the second communication application including updating a state of the first instance of the second communication application.

Synchronizing communication applications between information handling systems

A system and method for a peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator server to receive environmental telemetry data associated with a plurality of device nodes within a peripheral device workspace at a location that includes an anchor information handling system node with a hardware processor to execute computer-readable program code of a telemetry ownership orchestrator module to determine to offload a portion of environmental telemetry data collection and aggregation functions to be transitioned to a smart device node within the peripheral device workspace from the anchor information handling system node when a resource utilization level at the anchor information handling system node is determined to reach a utilization threshold, and transmitting instructions to the anchor information handling system node to offload the portion of environmental telemetry data collection and aggregation functions for a subset of the plurality of peripheral device nodes in the peripheral device workspace to the smart device node.

System and method for using intelligent staggered telemetry for node capabilities management across nodes in a peripheral device workspace

An information handling system node includes a hardware processor, a memory device, a power management unit with a peripheral device node operatively coupled to the information handling system node. The hardware processor may execute computer-readable program code of a custom event and device manageability service sub-agent to discover the peripheral device node operatively coupled to the information handling system node including a unique peripheral device identification (ID), request and receive, via a unified device application programming interface module, peripheral device capabilities and event IDs, where the event IDs describe custom events that are transmittable via any bus protocol from the peripheral device node, and register for custom event notifications with the peripheral device node by sending callback messages to the peripheral device node describing which custom events to receive custom event notifications about and setting custom event triggers that trigger the custom event notifications.

System and method for registering and relaying custom events and notices from node device to node device in peripheral device workspaces managed by a remote peripheral device cloud orchestrator server

A peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator server includes a hardware processor, a memory device, and a network interface device to receive operational capabilities and settings associated with a peripheral device node operatively coupled to an anchor information handling system node, the anchor information handling system node and peripheral device forming part of a collaborative peripheral device workspace to be registered with the peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator server. The hardware processor executes a collaborative workspace orchestrator module to register the peripheral device node within the collaborative peripheral device workspace. The hardware processor executes computer code of mesh manager module to identify and create a mesh within the collaborative peripheral device workspace including the anchor information handling system node and registered peripheral device node in a mesh manifest, the mesh created based on the KPIs of the registered peripheral device and assigned a mesh ID value.

System and method for managing and orchestrating a collaboration peripheral device workspace with adaptive meshes

Secure workspaces can be supported in heterogenous environments. Snapshots of secure workspaces can be created when the secure workspaces are deployed on a user's primary user computing device. When a user desires to access secure workspaces on a secondary user computing device, information about and a trust for the secondary user computing device can be determined. Based on the information and the trust, it can then be determined how the snapshots of the secure workspaces will be used to make the secure workspaces available to the secondary user computing device. In some cases, a best-known configuration for a secure workspace can be determined and applied.

Supporting secure workspaces in heterogenous environments

End-to-end distributed recovery of a user computing device on which secure workspaces are deployed is provided. An image of a user computing device and images of secure workspaces deployed on the user computing device can be created and stored. In response to a crash of the user computing device, a combined image can be created from the image of the user computing device and the images of the secure workspaces deployed on the user computing device. The combined image can then be deployed on the user computing device to recover the user computing device.

End-to-end distributed recovery of a user computing device on which secure workspaces are deployed

Application compliance policies can be dynamically updated. An agent can be deployed on user computing devices to monitor application install events to track how frequently users install applications on the user computing devices and whether applicable application compliance policies dictate that such applications should be removed. A policy management service of a management solution can interface with the agents to gather application metrics and use the application metrics to dynamically update the application compliance policies to prevent future removal of one or more applications that are determined to be commonly installed by the users. These dynamic updates could be made on a per-user basis, a per-group basis, or a global basis.

Dynamically updating application compliance policies

Applications can be automatically grouped in a secure workspace environment. An application organizer service can be deployed on a user computing device to intelligently group applications within secure workspaces based on resource requirements, peripheral usage, threat level and/or data sharing characteristics of the applications. The application organizer service may determine these characteristics in a variety of ways including through the monitoring of the applications as they execute inside the secure workspaces.

Automatically grouping applications in a secure workspace environment

Context-based workspace personalization is provided using an experience ID. An agent can be used on a user computing device to monitor for context of a workspace. Based on context, the agent can generate and send a manifest and an experience ID generated from the manifest to a workspace management service. The workspace management service can use the experience ID to identify whether a manageability snapshot exists for the workspace in its current context. If so, the workspace management service can send the manageability snapshot to the agent which in turn can apply the manageability snapshot to customize the workspace to the user's preferences. When the user makes changes to configurations of the workspace, the agent can relay such changes to the workspace management service using the experience ID to thereby cause such changes to be reflected in a corresponding manageability snapshot.

Context-based workspace personalization using an experience ID

Intelligent recovery of managed devices can be provided in a multi-tenant cloud environment. A recovery service can be employed to maintain management server details and device details for managed devices across multiple tenants. When a managed device loses connectivity to its management server, an agent on the managed device can access the recovery server to obtain management server details which have been associated with device details of the managed device. The agent can then use the management server details to regain connectivity to the management server.

Intelligent recovery of managed devices in a multi-tenant cloud environment

Snapshots with integrity can be taken of secure workspaces having distributed cache. When a snapshot of a secure workspace is to be taken, a host agent executing external to the secure workspace can instruct a workspace agent running inside the secure workspace to lock a filesystem and flush the cache within the secure workspace. The host agent can then lock the filesystem and flush the cache outside the secure workspace. The host agent may then create a snapshot of the secure workspace. After the snapshot is created, the host agent can unlock the filesystem outside the secure workspace and instruct the workspace agent to unlock the filesystem inside the secure workspace.

Taking snapshots with integrity of secure workspaces having distributed cache

Heterogeneous sets of cloud applications and storage can be bridged. Cloud services can be configured to include a Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) abstractor, multiple WOPI servers corresponding to respective multiple WOPI clients of cloud applications that may be used to access files, and a cloud storage abstractor that functions as an intermediary between the multiple WOPI servers and multiple cloud storages in which the files may be stored. The cloud services allow a user to access a single webpage or other interface to obtain access to his or her files stored in the multiple cloud storages via any of the multiple cloud applications.

Bridging heterogeneous sets of cloud applications and storage

Proactive auto scaling can be implemented in a scaled multi-tenant cloud environment. For a particular update window, a management server can obtain tenant details for each tenant whose endpoints are to be updated during the update window using a file server. The management server can use the tenant details to calculate a total update time for deploying a respective update to each of the endpoints. If the total update time will exceed the update window, the management server can create one or more additional file servers and cause some of the endpoints to obtain their respective update from the one or more additional file servers to thereby ensure that all the endpoints can complete the update during the update window.

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Srinivasa Ragavan Rajagopalan