Abstract: A first endpoint comprises a fabric attach point for attachment to a memory fabric, a first media controller, and a first non-volatile memory media. The memory fabric comprises a reliability zone comprising the first endpoint and at least a second endpoint. The first media controller is configured to receive, from at least one processor coupled to the first endpoint via the at least one fabric attach point, a memory fabric store command to store an object in the reliability zone. The first media controller is further configured to store the object in the first non-volatile memory media, to receive from the second endpoint a message indicating that the same object has been stored by the second endpoint, and to send to the at least one processor a single acknowledgement indicating that the at least one object has been stored in both the first and second endpoints of the reliability zone.

Abstract: A method includes selecting a given hardware configuration for a given application workload based on aligning an application workload specification template with a first hardware configuration template in a repository comprising a plurality of hardware configuration templates, the application workload specification template being generated by parsing and interpreting hardware-agnostic service level objective expressions of an application request.

Abstract: A method includes receiving an application request comprising specifications for a given application workload, selecting a given hardware configuration for the given application workload using one or more hardware configuration templates and information identifying a plurality of heterogeneous elements of the information technology infrastructure, modifying the application request to generate an enhanced application request specifying the given hardware configuration, and providing the enhanced application request to a scheduler, the enhanced application request being utilizable by the scheduler to select from the plurality of heterogeneous elements of the information technology infrastructure to schedule the given application workload.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining instructions at a mobile device comprising directions from a current location of the mobile device to a target location in a facility over a path identified by two or more waypoint devices distributed in the facility, receiving signaling over at least one wireless network from a selected one of the waypoint devices in the path, utilizing a radio frequency signal strength of the received signaling to estimate proximity between the mobile device and the selected waypoint device, presenting an indication of proximity to the first waypoint device via the mobile device based at least in part on the estimated proximity, determining whether the estimated proximity between the mobile device and the selected waypoint device is below a proximity threshold, and selecting another one of the waypoint devices in the path responsive to determining that the estimated proximity is below the proximity threshold.

Abstract: A method includes selecting, for each of a plurality of application workloads, first and second configuration templates based on aligning an application workload specification template with first and second pluralities of configuration templates in respective first and second repositories. The first repository is obtained by filtering the second repository using a local platform catalog representing capabilities provided by information technology infrastructure. The method also includes scheduling the application workloads to run on the information technology infrastructure utilizing respective ones of the first configuration templates each comprising a set of heterogeneous elements of the information technology infrastructure.

Abstract: Data storage systems are provided having a segregated control plane architecture, a segregated data plane architecture, or a segregated control plane and segregated data plane architecture. For example, a data storage system includes a plurality of media nodes and a plurality of data nodes coupled to the media nodes. The media nodes control and manage persistent storage elements. Each data node includes at least one hardware processor configured to execute data plane functions and control plane functions, wherein at least one of (i) the data plane functions of a given one of the data nodes are segregated and executed by different hardware processors and (ii) the control plane functions of a given one of the data nodes are segregated and executed by different hardware processors.

Abstract: Data storage systems are provided having a segregated control plane architecture, a segregated data plane architecture, or a segregated control plane and segregated data plane architecture. For example, a data storage system includes a plurality of media nodes and a plurality of data nodes coupled to the media nodes. The media nodes control and manage persistent storage elements. Each data node includes at least one hardware processor configured to execute data plane functions and control plane functions, wherein at least one of (i) the data plane functions of a given one of the data nodes are segregated and executed by different hardware processors and (ii) the control plane functions of a given one of the data nodes are segregated and executed by different hardware processors.

Abstract: One embodiment relates to a computer system comprising at least one host, at least one object addressable storage (OAS) system and at least one communication medium that couples the at least one host to the at least one OAS system. The at least one OAS system has a plurality of storage devices and stores a plurality of content units on the plurality of storage devices. Each of the at least one host and the at least one OAS system has software that provides a OAS interface so that each one of the content units stored on the OAS system may be identified between the at least one host and the at least one OAS using an object identifier. The computer system maps the object identifier for a first of the plurality of content units to at least one of the plurality of storage devices over at least one first path.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to a computer system comprising at least one host, at least one storage system and at least one communication medium that couples the at least one host to the at least one storage system. The at least one storage system includes a first group of storage devices, a second group of storage devices, a first controller, and a second controller. The first controller comprising a first file system that maps a first set of content units to storage locations on the first group of storage devices and the second controller comprising a second file system that maps a second set of content units to storage locations on the second group of storage devices. The at least one host accesses the first group of content units via the first controller and the second group of content units via the second controller.