International Business Machines Corporation

Vinatha Chaturvedi

Prasad Manikarao Deshpande

Raghuram Krishnapuram

Rema Ananthanarayanan

Vijil Enara Chenthamarakshan

Shajeer K Mohammed

Christopher J Dawson

Kavita Chavda

Wesley McMillan Devine

Thirumal Nellutla

Methods and arrangements for automatically finding the dependency of a software product on other software products or components. From an install image or directory, a signature is found by deriving the same from a directory structure of the software. Further, a directory tree structure is built and an approximate sub-tree matching algorithm is applied to find commonalities across software products.

Mining dependencies from disk images

Methods and arrangements for automatically finding the dependency of a software product on other software products or components. From an install image or directory, a signature is found by deriving the same from a directory structure of the software. Further, a directory tree structure is built and an approximate sub-tree matching algorithm is applied to find commonalties across software products.

Product data pertaining to a plurality of products is gathered from a plurality of sources. Dependency information for the plurality of products is extracted from the product data. The dependency information is analyzed to determine dependencies for each product of the plurality of products. The dependencies for each product of the plurality of products are displayed to a user.

Discovery, analysis, and visualization of dependencies

The present invention provides technology neutral process integration (Cloud Resource Planning), and optimization methodology leveraging a business meta-schema format Cloud Data Interchange (CDI) to integrate, enable, and invoke Cloud services. One example is that the present invention provides a management layer at the process level. There can be multiple Cloud implementations/types within a govern enterprise&#x2014;perhaps utilizing different infrastructure (e.g., hardware of one supplier versus that of another) or different areas of functionality (computing services, storage services, etc). This disclosure provides an abstraction or 'resource planning' layer above these core services such that a customer does not have to have knowledge or choose different Cloud types and/or understand or choose each underlying service. As such, it provides a 'one stop' portal.

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Vinatha Chaturvedi