Abstract: A computer system is provided that includes one or more processors configured to store a plurality of software interfaces that define explicit interaction contracts between network connected devices and software services. The one or more processors are configured to execute a plurality of software services. Each software service defines one or more software interfaces operated on by that software service. The one or more processors are configured to receive, from a network connected device, a list of one or more software interfaces implemented by the network connected device, select one or more software services based on a match between the one or more software interfaces implemented by the network connected device and the one or more software interfaces operated on by the plurality of software services, and process data received from the network connected device using the selected software services.

Abstract: Object automated determination of monitors associated with a component (i.e., application/software, middleware, hardware or the like) that has yet to be implemented within a computing environment infrastructure. Such a determination of the monitors relies on deploying one or more probes that scan through various, if not all, layers of the computing environment infrastructure, such as the hardware, the network, storage, operating systems, virtual layer, middleware, database, application layer, and/or the application to identify possible monitoring requirements. In this regard, the probes scan the environment to determine downstream services that effect the component and the upstream services effected by the component and the set-up/configurations associated with those services. Once the services and corresponding configurations have been identified, the appropriate monitors can be determined.

Abstract: System management services can discover the addition of new physical devices, take automated actions to provision software (operating system and other related cloud services software components) on them, and scale out management infrastructure based on the new capacity of the total resources (including the newly added resources). A configuration file can contain the rules for automatic expansion and contraction of the system.

Abstract: A method and a system for controlling the access of a plurality of client computers to storage media, the system including: a processor, a Random-Access Memory (RAM) device; and a Network Interface Controller (NIC), configured to establish a plurality of connections with the clients. The processor may dynamically allocate a buffer memory space to each connected client computer on the RAM device, and the NIC may be configured to receive at least one storage access request from at least one client, over at least one computer network connection. The RAM device may accumulate data of the at least one storage access request in the buffer allocated to the respective connected client computer, and the processor may be configured, upon completion of the accumulation of data, to propagate the buffered data to at least one storage device of the storage media.

Abstract: Techniques and a system are provided for protecting content (or media item) streamed over a network from unauthorized access. As an example, the streaming protection system generates statistics when a client requests a media item. The statistic may be generated based on various factors. The media item is divided into different portions, each portion requiring a different key to decrypt the portion so that it may be viewed by a user. Based on the generated statistic, the streaming protection system determines whether or not to allow the client access to the decryption key for a portion of the media item.

Abstract: A system and method include tracking virtual entities in a hybrid cloud system.

Abstract: A remote access controller support system includes a second server device that includes a second remote access controller that is coupled to a support system through an out-of-band network and coupled to a first remote access controller through a remote access controller network. The second server device registers and enrolls, using the second remote access controller and via communications through the out of-band-network, the second remote access controller with the support system by providing a second service tag. The second server device retrieves, using the second remote access controller and via communications with the first remote access controller through the remote access controller network, a first service tag from the first remote access controller and provides, using the second remote access controller and through the out of-band-network, the first service tag to the support system to enroll the first remote access controller with the support system.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining non-textual reply content for a reply to an electronic communication and providing the non-textual reply content for inclusion in the reply. Some of those implementations are directed to determining, based on an electronic communication sent to a user, one or more electronic documents that are responsive to the electronic communication, and providing one or more of those electronic documents for inclusion in a reply by the user to the electronic communication. For example, the electronic documents may be automatically attached to the reply and/or link(s) to the electronic documents automatically provided in the reply.

Abstract: Respective network metrics sets corresponding to one or more data sources are examined at a network health manager. Network health states corresponding to one or more endpoint pair categories are determined based on the analysis of the network metric sets. An indication of the network health state of a particular endpoint pair category is stored.

Abstract: A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.

Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein provide high availability and high utilization cloud data center architecture for supporting telecommunications services. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 4-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 37.5% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s (99.999%) and virtual machine availability of five 9s. According to another aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 3-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 66% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s and virtual machine availability of five 9s. According to another aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 4-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 75% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s and virtual machine availability of five 9s.

Abstract: A group of available virtual objects may each have a respective rule set that indicates how a corresponding available virtual object may be used to augment a physical environment. In some examples, the rule sets may be determined based at least in part on sample images that show approved settings or locations for the available virtual objects. To augment a physical space, one or more characteristics of the physical space may be determined, such as contexts, surface characteristics, and others. The rule sets for the available virtual objects may then be compared to the characteristics of the physical space to determine approved virtual objects that are approved for use to augment the physical space. A selected virtual object may then be selected from the approved virtual objects and inserted into a view of the physical space to create an augmented view of the physical space.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system comprising a physical memory, a processor and a software component. The software component includes a policy/domain handler for receiving data and a policy associated with the data; a hypervisor; and a file management module. The file management module receives a request from a third-party application to interact with a data file containing the data; sends an authorization and tag request to the policy/domain handler to check if the user and application are permitted to access the data, and if permitted, to generate hardware tags for the data file; and sends a secure data request to the hypervisor to create a secure data compartment for the data file and the hardware tags. Based on the authorization and tag request, and the security policy associated with the data, the policy/domain handler generates the hardware tags for the data file.

Abstract: Techniques for restricting the execution of algorithms contained in applications executing on virtual machines executing within a computer system are described herein. A first sampled set of computer executable instructions is gathered from a virtual machine by a controlling domain and compared against a reference set of computer executable instructions. If the first set is similar to the reference set, and if the execution of the algorithm corresponding to the reference set is restricted by one or more computer system polices, one or more operations limiting the execution of the restricted algorithm are performed, thus ensuring conformance with the computer system policies.

Abstract: Managing the lifecycle of a cloud service modeled as a topology decorated by a number of policies includes with a processor, generating a topology or the realized topology, the topology or the realized topology representing a cloud service, associating a number of lifecycle management actions (LCMAs) with a number of nodes within the topology or the realized topology, and with a lifecycle management engine, updating the topology or the realized topology by associating a number of policies with the number of nodes within the topology or the realized topology.

Abstract: A method for brokering an exchange of data between a backend server, a first client, and a second client is provided. The method can include receiving, from the backend server and/or the first client coupled with the backend server, a message. The response to the receipt of the message can include posting the message to a message queue having a same topic as the message. The message can be posted to the message queue at least by appending the message to a key-value pair corresponding to the message queue. The key-value pair can be stored in the distributed data storage system. The message can be sent to a second client coupled with the backend server based at least on the second client having subscribed to the topic of the message queue. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.

Abstract: Context appropriate errors are injected into conversational text generated by conversational agents. The conversational agent creates an imperfect conversational text containing at least one text entry error added to the original conversational text. A confidence level that at least one of context and meaning of the imperfect conversational text is consistent with the context and meaning of the original conversational text is determined, and the imperfect conversational text is communicated to a human recipient if the confidence level is above a pre-defined threshold.

Abstract: Event clusters can in an example embodiment include converting a description of an event associated with a configuration item (CI) to a standardized description, classifying the event based on a comparison of the standardized description of the event with a standardized description of a prior event included in an existing event cluster, and assigning the classified event to an event cluster.

Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods for dynamically determining enrollment requirements and enrolling a user device into a management system. The systems and methods can differ based on the type and version of operating system executing on the user device. With some operating systems, enrollment can be completed through a single application that performs other functionality, such providing single-sign-on access to enterprise resources. With other operating systems, enrollment can be completed by pausing the first application and requiring installation of an agent application to complete enrollment. The determination of how and when to enroll a user device can be done automatically and can be based on an organizational group to which the user belongs.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the system determines network performance metrics in a number of geographic areas within a communication network based on application data of end users. The system receives, from a client system, a query for geographic areas of interest specifying network performance criteria based on network performance metrics and corresponding thresholds. The system identifies geographic areas of interest matching the network performance criteria of the query. The system determines, for each geographic area of interest, network performance features based on network performance metrics derived from application data collected from the geographic areas of interest. The system generates optimization recommendations for one or more of the geographic areas of interest. The optimization recommendations are customized for the geographic areas of interest based on the performance features associated with the respective geographic areas of interest.