Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for detecting physical anomalies of a computing environment using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes monitoring a physical environment corresponding to at least one component of a distributed computing system using at least one sensor that is one or more of: at least partially within the at least one component and attached to the at least one component; performing, by the at least one component, a machine learning process comprising: analyzing data generated by the at least one sensor to detect one or more physical anomalies associated with the physical environment, and in response to detecting a physical anomaly, selecting at least one automated action, involving at least one additional component of the distributed computing system, to at least partially mitigate the physical anomaly; and initiating a performance of the at least one automated action.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a basic input/output system (BIOS), a memory, and a processor. The processor scans a current state of each BIOS attribute in the BIOS, and stores one or more changed attributes in a secure event log in the memory. The processor converts each changed attribute into a different threat event including a first changed attribute into a first threat event. The processor provides a list of threat events to multiple threat chains, each of which determine whether the threat events match threat criteria in a threat chain policy. In response to the threat event matching a threat criterion in the threat chain policy, the threat chain provides a threat state change to the processor, which in turn provides new threat state changes to a threat state change consumer.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: establishing a secure communication channel between a connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a provisioning request, the provisioning request being generated by the baseboard management controller; and, providing provisioning information to the data center asset via the secure communication channel.

Abstract: In general, embodiments relate to a method for detecting vulnerabilities of an installed application, comprising: obtaining information related to an application installed to a client device; sending, by an application monitoring agent, the information related to the application installed to the client device to a vulnerability validator; determining by the vulnerability validator, based on impact score information, whether a specific version of the application installed to the client device has vulnerabilities; sending the impact score information to a client device upgrade manager; and notifying, based on the impact score information, the client device when the application installed to the client device has vulnerabilities.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented in one example to physically transfer or relocate information handling systems between facilities of different system owners in a manner that is downstream of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the transferred information handling system/s, and which in one example may be managed in part or in whole by the OEM's customer base. In conjunction with facilitating physical transfer of each given information handling system directly between different enterprise owners, the disclosed systems and methods may also be implemented at the same time to utilize a unique identifier (that is assigned by the OEM manufacturer to each given information handling system) to manage transfer of the registration or other type of association of the given information handling system assets between the enterprise OEM user accounts of the different enterprise owners that are maintained by an OEM of the information handling system assets.

Abstract: A BIOS backup/recovery system includes a chassis housing a BIOS backup/recovery subsystem coupled to a primary and a secondary BIOS storage system. The BIOS backup/recovery subsystem begins initialization operations and determines whether the primary BIOS storage system includes customized MAC addresses. If so, the BIOS backup/recovery subsystem determines whether MAC addresses in the secondary BIOS storage system match the customized MAC addresses in the primary BIOS storage system and, if not, performs a BIOS backup operation that includes copying the customized MAC addresses in the primary BIOS storage system to the secondary BIOS storage system. If not, the BIOS backup/recovery subsystem determines whether MAC addresses in the secondary BIOS storage system match default MAC addresses in the primary BIOS storage system and, if not, performs a BIOS recovery operation that includes copying customized MAC addresses in the secondary BIOS storage system to the primary BIOS storage system.

Abstract: A method includes identifying relationships between containers on a first device, where each container includes at least one relationship that includes a HAS-A relationship or an IS-A relationship. The method further includes receiving a request to migrate at least a portion of the containers. The method also includes identifying a second device suitable for migration based on the request. Moreover, the method includes identifying a first group of containers from the containers to migrate to the second device based on the relationships. In addition, the method includes migrating the first group of containers to the second device.

Abstract: An infrastructure manager for placing workloads for performance across available infrastructure including on-demand infrastructure and dedicated infrastructure includes a storage device for storing an available infrastructure repository and a processor. The processor obtains a workload placement request for a workload of the workloads; makes a determination that the workload has a special purpose hardware requirement; in response to the determination: identifies, using the available infrastructure repository, potential placement locations in the available infrastructure for the workload that each meet the special purpose hardware requirement; and places the workload at one of the potential placement locations.

Abstract: A voltage regulator system of an information handling system includes a Smart Power Stage (SPS) and a voltage regulator controller. The SPS includes a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor. The voltage regulator controller detects a normal power down of the information handling system and sets bleed state for the SPS to a first state. Based on the bleed state being set to the first state, the voltage regulator controller provides a first control voltage to the low-side transistor and a second control voltage to the high-side transistor. The first control voltage causes the low-side transistor to be fully turned on, and the second control voltage causes the high-side transistor to be in a linear region. In response to a predetermined amount of time expiring, the voltage regulator controller enters the SPS in an idle mode.

Abstract: In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a product subscription service, receiving information regarding a hardware asset being returned at an end of a subscription and predicting, using a first machine learning (ML) model, whether the hardware asset has reached EOL. The method also includes, responsive to predicting that the hardware asset has reached EOL, creating, by the product subscription service, a work order to dispatch an eco-partner. The method may further include, by the product subscription service, responsive to predicting that the hardware asset has not reached EOL, predicting, using a second ML model, one or more new subscription orders matching the hardware asset and recommending the one or more matching new subscription orders as possible fits for the hardware asset.

Abstract: A standby site is periodically synchronized to a primary site. The synchronizing includes copying blocks of a source volume at the primary site that have changed since a last synchronization to the standby site, and a bitmap specifying locations of the changed blocks. A synthetic full copy of the source volume is generated at the standby site. The synthetic full backup is validated by using the bitmap to identify locations on the synthetic full backup to verify. These locations correspond to the changed blocks. A progress of the validation is tracked. A user can specify a threshold percentage value of data that upon being validated indicates that the standby site is ready to assume production operation from the primary site. A readiness of the standby site to assume production operation is reported based on the progress of the validation and the threshold percentage value.

Abstract: Systems and methods provided for vulnerability proofing updates to an IHS (Information Handling System). Upon receipt of an update to hardware component configurations of the IHS, vulnerability proofing requirements for modifications to the hardware component configurations are retrieved, including requirements for modifications that are validated for operation of a computational workload by the IHS. Based on the vulnerability proofing requirements, catalogs specifying known vulnerabilities of hardware components are consulted to determine whether the modifications are identified as vulnerable in the catalogs and whether remediations to the identified vulnerabilities are validated for operation of the workload. If the modifications are not identified as vulnerable in the catalogs, the update is transmitted to the IHS. If the modifications are identified as vulnerable in the catalogs and remediations to the identified vulnerabilities are not validated for operation of the workload, the update is terminated.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for a dynamic user dashboard are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining information related to characteristics of a user within an organization; generating a user context for the user based on the information; generating a data structure comprising mappings between the user context and one or more initial intents associated with the characteristics of the user; processing at least one user input using one or more natural language understanding techniques to identify at least one language-based intent; determining a derived intent based at least in part on the at least one language-based intent and the user context; dynamically updating the data structure based on the derived intent; and rendering data corresponding to the organization to a visual dashboard of the user based at least in part on the updated data structure.

Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor and a non-transitory, computer-reading medium having instructions thereon that are executable by the at least one processor for: providing access to one or more objects via a plurality of application programming interface (API) endpoints; receiving a call to a particular API endpoint from an app; and determining, based on a security identifier (SID) of the app, whether the call should be allowed; wherein the SID of the app is based on one or more custom capabilities defined in a manifest of the app.

Abstract: Methods and systems for power management are disclosed. The disclosed power management may facilitate the use of different components that may have different electrical current capacity limitations. The current capacity limitations may be based on, for example, physical limitations of the components, regulatory limitations, organizational limitations, and/or other considerations. It may not be desirable to exceed the current capacity limitations. By implementing the disclosed power management methods, systems, and/or devices, operation of devices may be less likely to result in the current drawn through devices such as power cables exceeding the current capacity limitations even while other devices operably connected to the cables do not have such current capacity limitations.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may include any number of magnets that may produce a magnetic field used to discern the user input. The magnets may be mechanically coupled to actuatable elements of the human interface device thereby encoding information regarding actuations of the human interface device into the magnetic field produced by the magnets. The magnetic field may be sensed and used to identify actuations by the user which may indicate input from the user.

Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor; and a storage resource having an element manager stored thereon. The information handling system may be configured to: establish, via the element manager, an information handling system cluster, wherein the information handling system cluster includes the information handling system as a first node and at least one other information handling system as a second node; configure the first node and the second node to communicatively couple to a storage array via a network and use the storage array as a primary storage volume for the information handling system cluster; and migrate the element manager to execute from the storage array.

Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards efficient detection of data changes between different data representations, to enable replication of the detected data changes. A process is presented that compares different “snapshot” representations of data, wherein the data may have changed between the different snapshots. The process can detect changed files a well as namespace changes that occur when a file or directory is deleted, added, or moved to a different location.

Abstract: A data protection agent is installed within a virtual machine (VM). A request to perform a backup is received. The request includes identifications of virtual machine disks (VMDKs) associated with the virtual machine. Communications are exchanged with a disk manager of a guest operating system of the VM to generate a map that maps the VMDKs to volumes attached to the VM. Communications are exchanged with an application in the VM to be protected to identify which of the volumes contain application databases associated with the application. A copy service is instructed to prepare the application for backup. A request is issued to a snapshot data mover for a snapshot of the application. The snapshot request includes identifications of a subset of the VMDKs mapped to corresponding volumes that contain the application databases. VMDKs mapped to corresponding volumes not containing the application databases are excluded from the snapshot request.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a printed circuit board, which in turn includes a differential pair, a ground trace, and a ground via. The differential pair includes first and second traces. The ground trace is routed between the first and second traces of the differential pair. The ground via is located along the ground trace. The ground trace and the ground via combine to create a common mode signal filter, which in turn resets a skew of the differential pair.