Abstract: An improved technique for managing an electronic system suitable for providing users with information technology resources, such as compute, storage, and network resources, builds an object model instance of data center components to represent the data center components as a unified entity, which administrators can access as a single-point source for information about the components. In some examples, the object model instance also serves as a single-point for management control of the electronic system. The object model instance is populated with information obtained from a discovery process, where components are queried to report their actual configuration and state, as well as physical and logical relationships among them.

Abstract: Methods and/or systems for performing workload analysis within an arrangement of interconnected computing devices, such as a converged infrastructure, are disclosed. A prediction system may generate a workload associated with physical and/or logical components of the converged infrastructure that are utilized to execute a client resource. The prediction system may monitor the utilization behavior of the various logical and/or physical components associated with the workload over a particular period of time to generate a workload profile. Subsequently, the prediction system may execute a prediction workload analysis algorithm that accesses the workload profile to identify optimal physical resources in the converged infrastructure that may be available to execute other workloads.

Abstract: Methods and/or systems for performing workload analysis within an arrangement of interconnected computing devices, such as a converged infrastructure, are disclosed. A prediction system may generate a workload associated with physical and/or logical components of the converged infrastructure that are utilized to execute a client resource. The prediction system may monitor the utilization behavior of the various logical and/or physical components associated with the workload over a particular period of time to generate a workload profile. Subsequently, the prediction system may execute a prediction workload analysis algorithm that accesses the workload profile to identify optimal physical resources in the converged infrastructure that may be available to execute other workloads.

Abstract: An improved technique for managing an electronic system suitable for providing users with information technology resources, such as compute, storage, and network resources, builds an object model instance of data center components to represent the data center components as a unified entity, which administrators can access as a single-point source for information about the components. In some examples, the object model instance also serves as a single-point for management control of the electronic system. The object model instance is populated with information obtained from a discovery process, where components are queried to report their actual configuration and state, as well as physical and logical relationships among them.

Abstract: An image enhancement system and method includes means for superimposing a second image, such as a hair style image, over portions of a first image, such as an image of a person's face. The system or method further automatically marks locations along the boundary between the first and second images and automatically calls a graphic smoothing function in the vaccination of the marked locations, so the boundary between the images is automatically smoothed. Preferably, the smoothing function calculates a new color value for a given pixel in the vicinity of such a marked location in at least two smoothing steps, the first of which calculates the color value for each of a plurality of pixels adjacent to the given pixel by combining color values from pixels which are separated, respectively, from each of those plurality of pixels by a distance of more than one pixel. The second step calculates the new color value for the given pixel by combining the color value of each of the plurality of pixels.