Abstract: The invention enables high-availability, high-scale, high security and disaster recovery for API computing, including in terms of capture of data traffic passing through proxies, routing communications between clients and servers, and load balancing and/or forwarding functions.

Abstract: There are provided mechanisms and methods for automating management of Scalable Distributed Persistent Applications (SDPA) in a grid computing environment. These mechanisms and methods make it possible for physical and operating system resources in the grid to be dynamically allocated and/or de-allocated based upon the results of monitoring performance and monitoring usage of physical and operating system resources.

Abstract: A operating system creates a semantic-based platform or fabric that provides a service oriented network. The operating system assigns virtual addresses to services registered with the network. Messages for the services are sent by service requesters using their virtual addresses. The virtual address is then mapped to the actual address of the service provider, which is then sent to the intended service provider. The messages are processed according to an SOA stack, where messages can be routed at the virtual IP, transport, or message layer without the need to process the message at the IP layer. The web services can be classified into a service zone, with the zone exposed to a service requester as a single entity. The zone is an independent domain, with communication within the zone managed by a semantic-based switch in the switch fabric.