Abstract: Platform management may be provided. First, a package may be received. The received package may then be separated into a plurality of deployment groups. Next, a plurality of tasks may be created for deploying the plurality of deployment groups. Then the plurality of tasks may be executed.

Abstract: Claim based identities are transformed to a set of credentials and securely stored in a secure data store using a number of encryption schemes. The credentials are then used to authenticate applications requiring specific credential types. For each call to the secure store system, a client application may provide a claims token issued by a trusted source, which is used to search for corresponding credentials in the secure data store if the credentials have been created previously for the user.

Abstract: A single virtual image of client information centrally located at an always-on network location for maintaining equivalency among multiple user devices. The image can be accessed by the user devices when coming online to upload and receive changes in the client information. A mid-tier system can be employed as the always-on central location with which the user client machines can communicate to maintain the same set of client information. Services in support thereof include an ownership service for dynamic selection of a designated client machine to take ownership for performing the actions on one client machine and arbitration of duplicate requests, a notification service for allowing data sources to publish cache update instructions to a central place, a roaming service for allowing clients machines to share state with each other, and an encryption service for secure storage and communications of client information.

Abstract: Claim based identities are transformed to a set of credentials and securely stored in a secure data store using a number of encryption schemes. The credentials are then used to authenticate applications requiring specific credential types. For each call to the secure store system, a client application may provide a claims token issued by a trusted source, which is used to search for corresponding credentials in the secure data store if the credentials have been created previously for the user.

Abstract: A distributed search architecture utilizing multiple processing cores to search multiple files containing time-correlated and logically/semantically interdependent sequential data. A supervisory processing core may provide coordination of the search where multiple slave processing cores each search one or more data files containing time-correlated and logically/semantically interdependent sequential data. Results of the searches performed by the slave processing cores may be provided to the supervisory processing core for consolidation, further analysis and/or presentation.

Abstract: A single virtual image of client information centrally located at an always-on network location for maintaining equivalency among multiple user devices. The image can be accessed by the user devices when coming online to upload and receive changes in the client information. A mid-tier system can be employed as the always-on central location with which the user client machines can communicate to maintain the same set of client information. Services in support thereof include an ownership service for dynamic selection of a designated client machine to take ownership for performing the actions on one client machine and arbitration of duplicate requests, a notification service for allowing data sources to publish cache update instructions to a central place, a roaming service for allowing clients machines to share state with each other, and an encryption service for secure storage and communications of client information.