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Novell Intellectual Properties, Inc.

Stephen R Carter

Lloyd Leon Burch

Carolyn Bennion McClain

Lee Edward Lowry

Scott Alan Isaacson

Delos C Jensen

Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz

Brent W Thurgood

Douglas Garry Earl

William Street

Dale Robert Olds

Jason Allen Sabin

Nathaniel Brent Kranendonk

Tammy Anita Green

Rajesh Vasudevan

Ryan Cox

Kal A Larsen

Michel Shane Simpson

Nadeem Ahmad Nazeer

Mark D Ackerman

Zack Traube Grossbart

Bruce L Bergeson

Del Jensen

Robert Drew Major

Vernon Roger Holm

Nathan Blaine Jensen

Jared Patrick Allen

Robert A Wipfel

Jeremy Ray Brown

Michael John Jorgensen

Duane Fredrick Buss

Jonathan Paul Bultmeyer

Robert Mark Ward

Hashem Mohammad Ebrahimi

Kelly Ervin Sonderegger

Larry Hal Henderson

Howard Rollin Davis

Carlos A Nevarez

Russell T Young

John Michael Robertson

Daniel T Ferguson

DeeAnne Barker Higley

Arn D Perkins

Stephen Hugh Kinser

Douglas R Phillips

Farrell Lynn Brough

Hilarie Orman

Charles Matthew Morgan

Joseph Andrew Mellmer

Carl Tietjen

Jeffrey Neil Sabin

Michael C McDonald

Robert Michael Sheridan

Ronald P Millett

Cameron Craig Morris

Glenn Ricart

Dipto Chakravarty

Kasman Ellis Thomas

Scott W Pathakis

James Gerald Sermersheim

Robert Skousen Stilmar

David Kent Beus

Paul Alexandre Turner

David Nephi Johnson

Gregory Matthew Haskins

Kevin Marinus Boogert

David H Bahi

Donald H LaVange, Jr

Daniel Edward Westervelt

Jay D Wootton

Michael William Cook

Dustin Lance Nielson

Ravishankar Krishnamurthy

Duraisamy Veeravadivel

Jerry E Griffis, Jr

Brian Collings Cooper

Gosukonda Naga Venkata Satya Sudhakar

Daniel S Sanders

Andrew A Hodgkinson

Kattiganehalli Y Srinivasan

Mel J Oyler

John Melvin Antony

Ashish Anant Vaidya

Nick N Nikols

Stephen G Toner

Baber Amin

Atul Mahajan

Stuart Jensen

Edward R Zayas

William Donald Peterson, Iii

Carl B Andersen

David Reveman

Jeffrey Todd Hawkins

Brent Ray Christensen

James Duane Nyland, Jr

Jaimon Jose

Edwards E Reed

Anna Dirks

Jonathon P Bultmeyer

Daniel C Lawyer

Techniques for cloud control and management are provided. The control, creation, and management of workloads in distributed infrastructures are coordinated via a master Configuration Management Database (CMDB). The master CMDB is also used to unify the multiple distributed infrastructures so that the workloads are rationalized. Moreover, data centers are coordinated with the distributed infrastructures so the configuration settings and policies included in the master CMDB are enforced and synchronized throughout the network.

Techniques for cloud control and management

Systems and methods are described that support information security and sub-system operational conformance with protocols. In some embodiments, agent access to resources can be controlled via generation of credentials and/or tokens and/or conditioned external authentication. In some embodiments, workflows used to assess protocol conformance can be conditionally triggered at sub-systems.

Systems and methods for supporting information security and sub-system operational protocol conformance

Techniques for identity and policy enforced cloud communications are presented. Cloud channel managers monitor messages occurring within a cloud or between independent clouds. Policy actions are enforced when processing the messages. The policy actions can include identity-based restrictions and the policy actions are specific to the messages and/or clouds within which the messages are being processed.

Identity and policy enforced inter-cloud and intra-cloud channel

Mechanisms to persist object relations are provided. A project is defined as a series of interrelated objects having dependencies and relationships with one another. The dependencies and relationships are maintained via a storage organization for files that define the objects within a project storage environment for the project. Thus, the dependencies and relationships are not maintained via hardcoded instructions or references that are included within the files.

Mechanisms to persist hierarchical object relations

Policy enforcement via attestations is provided. A principal operates within an environment and assumes roles having certain access rights to resources and the principal takes actions while assuming those roles. The roles and actions are monitored and attestations are raised under the proper set of circumstances. The attestations trigger policy restrictions that are enforced against the principal. The policy restrictions circumscribe the access rights to the resources.

Policy enforcement via attestations

System and method for providing cloud computing services are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a cloud computing environment comprising resources for supporting cloud workloads, each cloud workload having associated therewith an internal cloud address; and a routing system disposed between external workloads of an external computing environment and the cloud workloads, the routing system for directing traffic from an external address to the internal cloud addresses of the cloud workloads. A designated one of the cloud workloads obtains one key of a first pair of cryptographic keys, the first pair of cryptographic keys for decrypting encrypted storage hosted within the cloud computing environment.

System and method for providing key-encrypted storage in a cloud computing environment

Techniques for managing service definitions in an intelligent workload management system are provided. Workloads and software products are assembled as a single unit with custom configuration settings. The single unit represents a recallable and reusable service definition for a service that can be custom deployed within designated cloud processing environments.

Techniques for managing service definitions in an intelligent workload management system

Crafted identities are provided. A statement is provided to the principal for using a crafted identity. The statement includes an identifier that provides access to a resource when presented by the principal to the resource. The statement also includes one or more roles and permissions for the crafted identity when accessing the resource.

Crafted identities

Techniques for establishing a trusted cloud service are provided. Packages are created for services that include certificates, configuration information, trust information, and images for deploying instances of the services. The packages can be used to deploy the services in trusted environments and authenticated to deploy in sub environments of un-trusted environments. The sub environments are trusted by the trusted environments. Also, clouds are prospected for purposes of identifying desirable clouds and creating the packages for deployment.

Techniques for establishing a trusted cloud service

Techniques for distributed cache management are provided. A server having backend resource includes a global cache and a global cache agent. Individual clients each have client cache agents and client caches. When data items associated with the backend resources are added, modified, or deleted in the client caches, the client cache agents report the changes to the global cache agent. The global cache agent records the changes and notifies the other client cache agents to update a status of the changes within their client caches. When the changes are committed to the backend resource each of the statuses in each of the caches are updated accordingly.

Methods and system for maintaining data coherency in distributed data cache network

Techniques for dynamic cloud-based edge service computing are provided. A principal requests a service and a policy is evaluated to select a cloud processing environment capable of supplying the service from an optimal network location as defined by the policy. The selected cloud processing environment is configured to supply the requested service and to monitor and control access of the principal to the requested service from the selected cloud processing environment.

Techniques for dynamic cloud-based edge service computing

Methods and apparatus involve extending functionality of legacy services. A legacy application has functionality designed for use on an original computing device. In a modern environment, virtual machines (VMs) operate as independent guests on processors and memory by way of scheduling control from a virtualization layer (e.g., hypervisor). At least one VM is provisioned to modify standard entry points of the original legacy application for new accessing of various system functions of the hardware platform. Representative functions include network access, processors, and storage. Policy decision points variously located are further employed to ensure compliance with computing policies. Multiple platforms and computing clouds are contemplated as are VMs in support roles and dedicated software appliances. In this manner, continued use of legacy services in modern situations allows participation in more capable environments and application capabilities heretofore unimagined. Other embodiments contemplate computing systems and computer program products, to name a few.

Extending functionality of legacy services in computing system environment

Techniques for identity and policy based routing are presented. A resource is initiated on a device with a resource identity and role assignments along with policies are obtained for the resource. A customized network is created for the resource using a device address for the device, the resource identity, the role assignments, and the policies.

Techniques for identity and policy based routing

Techniques for policy and identity-based workload provisioning are presented. Identities for requestors or workloads and identities for workloads are tied to specific policies. The specific policies are evaluated based on a stage of readiness for resources within a resource pool and based on resource identities for the resources within the resource pool. Resources are then dynamically provisioned based on the identity-based policy evaluation to handle workloads from the resource pool.

Policy and identity based workload provisioning

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