Abstract: A mounting device for holding a hollow cylindrical object, particularly a screw cap, in a printing system, comprises a support member, and a mandrel for receiving a hollow cylindrical object arranged at the support member, and a heating device for heating the hollow cylindrical object mounted at the mandrel. A printing system for printing on hollow cylindrical objects, preferably screw caps, comprises at least one mounting device, and at least one printhead configured to print on surfaces of cylindrical objects, preferably screw caps.

Abstract: A tiltable mounting device is for mounting cylindrical objects with a top surface and a lateral surface, and for tilting the objects relative to a reference plane. The device has a frame, and one or more mandrels, each configured to mount a cylindrical object. Each mandrel is rotatable about a longitudinal axis, and is tiltable in the frame between first and second positions. The longitudinal axis of each mandrel in the first position is oriented perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the respective mandrel in the second position. In the first position, each mandrel is oriented with the top surface of the object in the reference plane, and in the second position, each mandrel is oriented such that the lateral surface of the cylindrical object is tangent to the reference plane.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device having a processor coupled to a memory configured to implement a plurality of virtual computing resources including a first subset providing a management network, a second subset providing partner zones, and a third subset providing customer service enclaves. The management network is configured to provision and control communication between partner zones and customer service enclaves. A given partner zone associated with a given partner is configured to provision partner-controlled services of the given partner to customer environments via the customer service enclaves. A given customer service enclave associated with a given customer is configured to activate the given partner for a given customer environment associated with the given customer to enable provisioning of the partner-controlled services of the given partner from the given partner zone to the given customer environment.

Abstract: A mounting device for holding a hollow cylindrical object, particularly a screw cap, in a printing system, comprises a support member, and a mandrel for receiving a hollow cylindrical object arranged at the support member, and a heating device for heating the hollow cylindrical object mounted at the mandrel. A printing system for printing on hollow cylindrical objects, preferably screw caps, comprises at least one mounting device, and at least one printhead configured to print on surfaces of cylindrical objects, preferably screw caps.

Abstract: A tiltable mounting device is for mounting cylindrical objects with a top surface and a lateral surface, and for tilting the objects relative to a reference plane. The device has a frame, and one or more mandrels, each configured to mount a cylindrical object. Each mandrel is rotatable about a longitudinal axis, and is tiltable in the frame between first and second positions. The longitudinal axis of each mandrel in the first position is oriented perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the respective mandrel in the second position. In the first position, each mandrel is oriented with the top surface of the object in the reference plane, and in the second position, each mandrel is oriented such that the lateral surface of the cylindrical object is tangent to the reference plane.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes a plurality of processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to implement at least a component control layer of a multi-layer application management architecture for a plurality of applications comprising controlled components. The applications are managed at least in part utilizing interactions between the component control layer and an overlying orchestration layer of the multi-layer application management architecture. The component control layer comprises at least one component controller configured to interface with one or more of the controlled components. The component controller is implemented as an application management microservice presenting a standardized application programming interface to the orchestration layer.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device having a processor coupled to a memory configured to implement a plurality of virtual computing resources including a first subset providing a management network, a second subset providing partner zones, and a third subset providing customer service enclaves. The management network is configured to provision and control communication between partner zones and customer service enclaves. A given partner zone associated with a given partner is configured to provision partner-controlled services of the given partner to customer environments via the customer service enclaves. A given customer service enclave associated with a given customer is configured to activate the given partner for a given customer environment associated with the given customer to enable provisioning of the partner-controlled services of the given partner from the given partner zone to the given customer environment.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes a plurality of processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to implement virtual resources of one or more clouds for use by applications of at least one application management domain. The processing platform further comprises an application manager configured in accordance with a multi-layer application management architecture. The application manager implements at least one of a startup procedure, a shutdown procedure, a reboot procedure and an isolation procedure for at least a portion of each of one or more of the applications. A given instance of at least one of the startup procedure, the shutdown procedure, the reboot procedure and the isolation procedure is applied to a particular designated set of controlled components. The given instance is configurable under user control so as to provide a customized version of the corresponding procedure.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes a plurality of processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to implement virtual resources of one or more clouds for use by applications of at least one application management domain. The processing platform further comprises an application manager configured in accordance with a multi-layer application management architecture including at least a component control layer, a system control and inner orchestration layer, an access and routing layer, an external system orchestration layer, and a presentation layer. The virtual resources and applications comprise respective controlled components under control of the component control layer.

Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes a plurality of processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to implement at least a component control layer of a multi-layer application management architecture for a plurality of applications comprising controlled components. The applications are managed at least in part utilizing interactions between the component control layer and an overlying orchestration layer of the multi-layer application management architecture. The component control layer comprises at least one component controller configured to interface with one or more of the controlled components. The component controller is implemented as an application management microservice presenting a standardized application programming interface to the orchestration layer.

Abstract: Implementations of complex software solutions are accompanied with an intrinsic conflict between requirements, such as an ever-growing complexity of enterprise software solutions versus a demand for more and more shortened implementation cycles. Various embodiments include at least one of systems methods and software to address such conflicts. One method embodiment includes receiving a request to assemble a virtual appliance from at least one deployment template, the request including characteristic data representative of at least one virtual appliance functional and deployment requirement. In response to the received request, such embodiments may query a template warehouse to identify and deployment templates from a template warehouse to a data storage device to form a virtual appliance. The virtual appliance may then be packaged into a transport data structure and stored. The transport data structure may then be transported by various means to a target virtual machine and deployed therein.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide mechanisms that mitigate organizational exposures when evaluating and choosing computer applications, enhancements, and modifications thereto. Some embodiments provide technological solutions that allow for rapid application prototyping, deployment, evaluation, testing, and the act of going live in a production environment. Some such embodiments provide applications including content and data, in the form of virtual appliance templates, that is pre-installed, pre-configured, pre-tested, and pre-loaded in a very rapid manner. Some embodiments may further allow for cloning of the instantiated application to another virtual computing environment, and utilization from that location on forward looking basis.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide mechanisms that mitigate organizational exposures when evaluating and choosing computer applications, enhancements, and modifications thereto. Some embodiments provide technological solutions that allow for rapid application prototyping, deployment, evaluation, testing, and the act of going live in a production environment. Some such embodiments provide applications including content and data, in the form of virtual appliance templates, that is pre-installed, pre-configured, pre-tested, and pre-loaded in a very rapid manner. Some embodiments may further allow for cloning of the instantiated application to another virtual computing environment, and utilization from that location on forward looking basis.

Abstract: Implementations of complex software solutions are accompanied with an intrinsic conflict between requirements, such as an ever-growing complexity of enterprise software solutions versus a demand for more and more shortened implementation cycles. Various embodiments include at least one of systems methods and software to address such conflicts. One method embodiment includes receiving a request to assemble a virtual appliance from at least one deployment template, the request including characteristic data representative of at least one virtual appliance functional and deployment requirement. In response to the received request, such embodiments may query a template warehouse to identify and deployment templates from a template warehouse to a data storage device to form a virtual appliance. The virtual appliance may then be packaged into a transport data structure and stored. The transport data structure may then be transported by various means to a target virtual machine and deployed therein.

Abstract: A receptacle connector comprises at least one receptacle contact. The receptacle contact includes a contact member and at least one spring member. The contact member is formed for receipt of a plug contact along a mating plane. The contact member is resiliently displaceable in a direction substantial lateral to the mating plane by the spring member.

Abstract: A method of providing a decorative metal pattern on an electrically non-conductive substrate, such as a glass or plastic substrate, which includes applying a mixture of heat fusible material, such as glass or plastic, with a metal having a particle size less than about 500 mesh constituting at least 50% of the mixture, to the substrate in the desired pattern, heating the so-applied mixture until the heat fusible material fuses and bonds to the substrate, cleaning the substrate with the pattern thereon, and a electroplating the pattern with the desired finish metal. In one method in which the mixture includes glass, a negative resist is adhesively secured to the substrate and the mixture is applied. The resist disintegrates upon heating. In another method, used when the substrate is plastic, a mixture of plastic and metal in past form is applied to the substrate by silk screening or pad printing to form the pattern.