Kirk A Beaty

US Patent:

8140905, Mar 20, 2012

Filed:

Feb 5, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/701232

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Michael R. Head - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Andrzej Kochut - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Anca Sailer - Yorktown Heights NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 35

Abstract:

Installation files are annotated, which annotations may trigger system snapshots to be taken at a plurality of points during the execution of the installation files and/or collected. During a test run, the generated snapshots are examined incrementally to determine whether the installation is success or failure at that point. Checkpoint snapshots are stored, and those indicating failure are recorded with description of the error and/or remediation that suggest how the errors may be resolved or fixed. During a production run, the annotated installation files may be executed and the checkpoint snapshots generated during the production run may be compared with those stored of the test run to incrementally identify and resolve potential problems in the production run.

US Patent:

8140907, Mar 20, 2012

Filed:

Jun 29, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/826219

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty - Goldens Bridge NY, US
Michael R. Head - Tarrytown NY, US
Anca Sailer - Scarsdale NY, US
Charles O. Schulz - Ridgefield CT, US
Hidayatullah H. Shaikh - Shrub Oak NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 381, 714 37, 714 3811

Abstract:

Troubleshooting virtual environment deployment based on two level file system signatures, in one aspect, may include creating a first level file system signature including a set of file names of files in an image of a virtual machine taken at a point in time and associated status of the files as compared with an image of the virtual machine taken at a preceding point in time. A second level file system signature may be created using file content differences of the files having modified status in the set of file names. The first level file system signature may be compared with a first level file system signature pattern associated with one or more previous deployment of the same software and related to the same point in time. Optionally, the second level file system signature may be compared with a second level file system signature pattern.

US Patent:

8234236, Jul 31, 2012

Filed:

Aug 26, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/547726

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty - Hawthorne NY, US
Rajdeep Bhowmik - Johnson City NY, US
Andrzej Kochut - Hawthorne NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06N 5/00

US Classification:

706 52, 706 45

Abstract:

A system and method for managing responsiveness of virtual desktops using passive monitoring includes monitoring interactive desktop events for a computer device and measuring a time between the interactive desktop event and a result of the interactive desktop event. Based on the time, desktop responsiveness is evaluated. System resources are reallocated to improve the responsiveness.

US Patent:

8244839, Aug 14, 2012

Filed:

Jun 30, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/826915

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty - Goldens Bridge NY, US
Michael R. Head - Tarrytown NY, US
Anca Sailer - Scarsdale NY, US
Hidayatullah Shaikh - Shrub Oak NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709221, 709224, 709206, 709223, 709229, 370237, 370231, 370235, 370229, 370230, 726 22, 726 23, 726 11, 726 5

Abstract:

Techniques for problem determination are provided. The techniques include identifying one or more configuration items in two or more systems connected to one or more networks, performing a comparison of one or more common configuration items from the one or more configuration items in the two or more systems connected to one or more networks, and using the comparison to detect deviation between one or more configuration items of one of the two or more systems and one or more respective configuration items in the other one or more systems.

US Patent:

8291411, Oct 16, 2012

Filed:

Mar 6, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/043260

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty - Goldens Bridge NY, US
Norman Bobroff - Katonah NY, US
Andrzej Kochut - Elmsford NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/455
G06F 9/46

US Classification:

718 1, 718100, 718101, 718102, 718103, 718104, 718105, 718106

Abstract:

Historical data is measured for a computer server system. Future demand for service in the computer server system is forecast based on the historical data, and the mapping of virtual machines to physical machines is updated based on the forecast of the future demand. Measurement, forecasting, and placement modules can be employed.

US Patent:

8365167, Jan 29, 2013

Filed:

Apr 15, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/103606

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty - Goldens Bridge NY, US
Andrzej Kochut - Elmsford NY, US
Daniel Salinas - Farmington Hills MI, US
Charles Otto Schulz - Ridgefield CT, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/48

US Classification:

718 1, 717172

Abstract:

A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and data processing system clone virtual machines in a virtual desktop environment. A request to clone a new virtual machine is intercepted, wherein the request was initially sent to a virtual management server. Responsive to intercepting the request, the new virtual machine is cloned from a snapshot of a master virtual machine. A delta file is created for the new virtual machine, wherein the delta file includes a base disk reference and a copied delta file. The new virtual machine is configured to read a base disk image from a snapshot of the master virtual machine. The new virtual machine is configured to write data to the copied delta file in the delta file.

US Patent:

8490087, Jul 16, 2013

Filed:

Dec 2, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/629248

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty - Hawthorne NY, US
Rajdeep Bhowmik - Johnson City NY, US
Andrzej Kochut - Hawthorne NY, US
Junghwan Rhee - West Lafayette IN, US
Hidayatullah H. Shaikh - Hawthorne NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/455

US Classification:

718 1, 719318, 709201, 709219

Abstract:

A system and method for transforming a legacy device into a virtualized environment includes gathering profiling data over time to represent legacy device activities and analyzing the profiling data for system applications and user applications using a processor to determine usage frequency and resource requirements of at least one application. Captured user action events are benchmarked to simulate a user workload for the at least one application to determine how resource utilization and execution times scale from a legacy environment to a virtualized environment. One or more scaling factors are determined to produce a plan to provision for legacy services in the virtualized environment. The legacy system is transformed into the virtualized environment in accordance with the plan.

US Patent:

8495584, Jul 23, 2013

Filed:

Mar 10, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/721141

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty - Goldens Bridge NY, US
Andrzej Kochut - Elmsford NY, US
Junghwan Rhee - West Lafayette IN, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 15/173
G06F 3/048

US Classification:

717127, 717128, 717129, 717130, 709224, 715764

Abstract:

A plurality of user interactions in a baseline computing system are intercepted and recorded, in an artifact file, with a benchmarking tool. The recorded user interactions from the artifact file are replayed and injected to a software stack of a system under test (whose performance is to be compared to the baseline system), using the benchmarking tool. During the replay, screen updates in the system under test are sequentially compared with expected screen images from the artifact file, until a match is observed in a given case. A response time associated with each of the matches is recorded.