Patents by Inventor Malcolm Gordon CROSSLEY

Malcolm Gordon CROSSLEY has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Security-aware scheduling of virtual machines in a multi-tenant infrastructure
    Patent number: 11347558
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for computer cluster management. Multiple components are operatively interconnected to carry out operations for placing virtual machines onto a multi-tenant computing cluster, where the placement achieves adherence to a set of security requirements. Initially, data characterizing logical CPU resources of the multi-tenant computing cluster are gathered. Upon receipt of a request to place a virtual machine onto a node of the multi-tenant computing cluster, a set of security rules that are used to achieve the set of security requirements associated with the multi-tenant computing cluster are accessed. In accordance with the security rules the virtual machine is assigned to execute in a portion of the logical CPU resources. The virtual machine does not share logical CPU resources with any other tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Gordon Crossley, Miao Cui, Fabien Hermenier, Aditya Ramesh
  • SECURITY-AWARE SCHEDULING OF VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A MULTI-TENANT INFRASTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20210173710
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for computer cluster management. Multiple components are operatively interconnected to carry out operations for placing virtual machines onto a multi-tenant computing cluster, where the placement achieves adherence to a set of security requirements. Initially, data characterizing logical CPU resources of the multi-tenant computing cluster are gathered. Upon receipt of a request to place a virtual machine onto a node of the multi-tenant computing cluster, a set of security rules that are used to achieve the set of security requirements associated with the multi-tenant computing cluster are accessed. In accordance with the security rules the virtual machine is assigned to execute in a portion of the logical CPU resources. The virtual machine does not share logical CPU resources with any other tenant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Gordon CROSSLEY, Miao CUI, Fabien HERMENIER, Aditya RAMESH