Abstract: A system managing apparatus decides a time optimum for executing data copying from a copy source volume to a copy destination volume, and manages an RPO requirement of a user and a quiescing time period for each application at the time of a copy start. The system managing apparatus calculates a copy execution time and a copy execution interval such that data in which application consistency is maintained can be acquired at an interval that satisfies the RPO. In addition, the system managing apparatus monitors the use status of an application and the use status of a copy line after the start of copy operation, and calculates a copy execution time and a copy execution interval that allow a return to an appropriate recovery point, taking into consideration an application quiescing time period and a period of time required for copy completion that change in real time.

Abstract: In a mask pattern forming method, a resist film is formed over a thin film, the resist film is processed into resist patterns having a predetermined pitch by photolithography, slimming of the resist patterns is performed, and an oxide film is formed on the thin film and the resist patterns after an end of the slimming step in a film deposition apparatus by supplying a source gas and an oxygen radical or an oxygen-containing gas. In the mask pattern forming method, the slimming and the oxide film forming are continuously performed in the film deposition apparatus.

Abstract: A charging system which charges a power storage device mounted on a moving object, includes: an electric power conversion device that converts electric power supplied from a commercial power supply; a kinetic energy storage device that stores kinetic energy; and a rotary electric machine that is electrically connected to the electric power conversion device and is mechanically connected to the kinetic energy storage device.

Abstract: An object is to provide a cathode that maintains high energy conversion efficiency over a long period of time without increase in overvoltage even when hydrogen generation is repeatedly started and stopped. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present disclosure is a cathode for generating hydrogen including a conductive substrate and a catalyst layer including, on a surface of the conductive substrate: at least one of Pt, a Pt oxide, and a Pt hydroxide; and at least one of a metal, an oxide, and a hydroxide of a lanthanoid element that becomes electrochemically stable as trivalent ions within the potential window of water of pH 7 or higher and pH 16 or lower. The molar ratio of the Pt element to the lanthanoid element (Pt:lanthanoid) in the catalyst layer is 95:5 to 65:35.

Abstract: A hub assembly comprises a hub axle, a hub shell, a sprocket support body, a first ratchet member, a second ratchet member, and a spacer. The spacer includes at least one base member and at least one axial projection. The at least one axial projection extends from the at least one base member in an axial direction. The at least one axial projection is at least partially provided between at least one first tooth and at least one second tooth in a circumferential direction. A first axial tooth-end is closer to an axial center plane of the hub assembly than a second axial tooth-end. The at least one base member of the spacer is disposed at a location closer to the first axial tooth-end than the second axial tooth-end.

Abstract: Techniques for migration of a source protected virtual machine from a source platform to a destination platform are descried. A method of an aspect includes enforcing that bundles of state, of a first protected virtual machine (VM), received at a second platform over a stream, during an in-order phase of a migration of the first protected VM from a first platform to the second platform, are imported to a second protected VM of the second platform, in a same order that they were exported from the first protected VM. Receiving a marker over the stream marking an end of the in-order phase. Determining that all bundles of state exported from the first protected VM prior to export of the marker have been imported to the second protected VM. Starting an out-of-order phase of the migration based on the determination that said all bundles of the state exported have been imported.

Abstract: A management apparatus including a storage device configured to store restoration rules which define a plurality of patterns relating to the restoration in a restoration configuration indicating a copy source and a copy destination of the data, and backup configuration information relating to the backup source and the backup destination of the data, the management apparatus executes: specification processing of specifying restoration target data; selection processing of selecting a specific restoration rule from the restoration rules; and generation processing of generating, by referring to the backup configuration information, in a restoration configuration of the restoration target data in which the backup source of the restoration target data specified by the specification processing is the copy destination and the backup destination of the restoration target data is the copy source, a restoration pattern of the restoration target data in accordance with the specific restoration rule selected by the select

Abstract: Upon acquiring target business specifying information for specifying a target business, disaster recovery (DR) operation phase determination processing of calculating an operation phase is executed based on copy configuration information for managing a pair configuration of a target business use volume and a copy volume and a copy status table for managing a copy status in the target business use volume and the copy volume, a disaster pattern corresponding to a disaster situation of a volume of a disaster target having been damaged is calculated in accordance with an operation phase calculated by the DR operation phase determination unit, and a cloud use fee is calculated for each disaster pattern from a failure occurrence to completion of system recovery of a use site where a use volume is created.

Abstract: A hub is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The hub includes a hub axle, a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a first ratchet member, a second ratchet member and a slider. The first rotating body and the second rotating body are rotatably mounted on the hub axle. The first ratchet member rotates with the first rotating body. The second ratchet member rotates with the second rotating body. The slider rotates with the first rotating body and slide with respect to the second rotating body in a circumferential direction. The slider has a first contact surface in sliding contact with an axially facing surface of the second ratchet member. The slider has a second contact surface in sliding contact with a radially facing surface of the second ratchet member.

Abstract: A hybrid cloud system includes a management server, a storage of a source-side data center serving as a remote copy source, and a storage by a cloud service provided from a target-side data center serving as a backup destination. The management server is configured to make a request for a disaster recovery configuration using the storage by the cloud service, based on a recovery time objective requirement related to a recovery time objective, a recovery point objective requirement related to a recovery point objective, and a recovery level objective requirement related to a recovery level objective.

Abstract: A management device executes an acquisition process of acquiring configuration management information including at least the first storage region and the second storage region; an extraction process of extracting, from the cost calculation rule table, the cost calculation formula in the second storage region included in the configuration management information acquired in the acquisition process; a first calculation process of calculating a cost estimate value by the cost calculation formula by acquiring, from the performance/capacity history table, a value to be substituted in as a variable of the cost calculation formula; a creation process of creating a cost estimate result including a cost estimate value calculated in the first calculation process, the first storage region, the second storage region, and the type of the usage configuration using the second storage region; and an output process of outputting the cost estimate result created in the creation process.

Abstract: A management device executes an acquisition process of acquiring configuration management information including at least the first storage region and the second storage region; an extraction process of extracting, from the cost calculation rule table, the cost calculation formula in the second storage region included in the configuration management information acquired in the acquisition process; a first calculation process of calculating a cost estimate value by the cost calculation formula by acquiring, from the performance/capacity history table, a value to be substituted in as a variable of the cost calculation formula; a creation process of creating a cost estimate result including a cost estimate value calculated in the first calculation process, the first storage region, the second storage region, and the type of the usage configuration using the second storage region; and an output process of outputting the cost estimate result created in the creation process.

Abstract: A management apparatus including a storage device configured to store restoration rules which define a plurality of patterns relating to the restoration in a restoration configuration indicating a copy source and a copy destination of the data, and backup configuration information relating to the backup source and the backup destination of the data, the management apparatus executes: specification processing of specifying restoration target data; selection processing of selecting a specific restoration rule from the restoration rules; and generation processing of generating, by referring to the backup configuration information, in a restoration configuration of the restoration target data in which the backup source of the restoration target data specified by the specification processing is the copy destination and the backup destination of the restoration target data is the copy source, a restoration pattern of the restoration target data in accordance with the specific restoration rule selected by the select

Abstract: The bicycle hub assembly includes a hub axle, a hub body, a bearing unit, a lock member, and a tool engagement member. The bearing unit is configured to rotatably support the hub body around the hub axle with respect to the rotational center axis. The bearing unit includes an outer race, an inner race and a plurality of rolling members. The lock member prevents the inner race of the bearing unit from rotating relative to the hub axle. The lock member has an outer peripheral surface. The tool engagement member is configured to rotate the inner race of the bearing unit relative to the hub axle. The tool engagement member has an inner peripheral surface. The inner peripheral surface of the tool engagement member is disposed radially outwardly relative to the outer peripheral surface of the lock member.

Abstract: A method includes: determining presence or absence of duplication processing by a node 1000, the node constituting each of a plurality of distributed ledger systems and managing identification information of call processing from a program on another distributed ledger system 1; and executing the call processing after deduplication of the call processing is executed based on a specific policy.

Abstract: A data migration system 10 includes: a management server 20 configured to obtain transaction information from a distributed ledger at a data migration source, and transmit a migration transaction to a distributed ledger node at a data migration destination, the migration transaction specifying a transaction ID indicated by the transaction information obtained; and the distributed ledger node 100 configured to receive the migration transaction, obtain transaction information in the distributed ledger at the data migration source based on the transaction ID, extract data on a predetermined processing result from the transaction information obtained, execute a transaction using the extracted data as an argument, and transmit a result of the executed transaction to a transaction distribution node 300 at the data migration destination.

Abstract: A data management system 10 includes distributed ledger nodes 1000 forming a distributed ledger system, one of the nodes configured to execute processing to receive a request for storing data from a different apparatus and generate data segments by dividing the data, processing to determine a plurality of allocation nodes to which to allocate the data segments in conformity to a predetermined rule, processing to distribute and store the data segments in data regions in the respective allocation nodes, and processing to manage, in a distributed ledger, information on the allocation nodes and access management information for management of access to the data, using a smart contract that the node already has.

Abstract: Technologies for managing paravirtual network device queue and memory of a network computing device that includes multi-core processor, a multi-layer cache, a host, and a plurality of virtual machine instances. The host is assigned a processor core of the processor and may be configured to copy a received network packet to a last level cache of the multi-layer cache and determine one or more virtual machine instances configured to process the received network packet. Each virtual machine instance has been assigned a processor core of the processor and has been allocated a first level cache of the multi-level cache memory associated with the respective processor core. The host is additionally configured to inject an interrupt into each processor core of the determined virtual machine (s) which indicates to the virtual machine instance (s) that the received network packet is available to be processed.

Abstract: Techniques for migration of a source protected virtual machine from a source platform to a destination platform are descried. A method of an aspect includes enforcing that bundles of state, of a first protected virtual machine (VM), received at a second platform over a stream, during an in-order phase of a migration of the first protected VM from a first platform to the second platform, are imported to a second protected VM of the second platform, in a same order that they were exported from the first protected VM. Receiving a marker over the stream marking an end of the in-order phase. Determining that all bundles of state exported from the first protected VM prior to export of the marker have been imported to the second protected VM. Starting an out-of-order phase of the migration based on the determination that said all bundles of the state exported have been imported.

Abstract: A data migration system 10 includes: a management server 20 configured to obtain transaction information from a distributed ledger at a data migration source, and transmit a migration transaction to a distributed ledger node at a data migration destination, the migration transaction specifying a transaction ID indicated by the transaction information obtained; and the distributed ledger node 100 configured to receive the migration transaction, obtain transaction information in the distributed ledger at the data migration source based on the transaction ID, extract data on a predetermined processing result from the transaction information obtained, execute a transaction using the extracted data as an argument, and transmit a result of the executed transaction to a transaction distribution node 300 at the data migration destination.