Identifying root causes of failures in a deployed distributed application using historical fine grained machine state data

PM Deshpande, A Nandi, S Subramanian - US Patent 9,772,898, 2017 - Google Patents
Methods and arrangements for identifying root causes of system failures in a distributed
system said method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that …

Self-healing and dynamic optimization of VM server cluster management in multi-cloud platform

CY Yang, DH Lu, S Baker, AM Srdar… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Virtual machine server clusters are managed using self-healing and dynamic optimization to
achieve closed-loop automation. The technique uses adaptive thresholding to develop …

Application performance analyzer and corresponding method

F Ryckbosch, S Polfliet, B De Vylder - US Patent 10,339,457, 2019 - Google Patents
An application performance management system is provided, which is adapted to analyze
the performance of one or more applications running on information technology (IT) …

Hardware-based system monitoring

C Golden, E Watkins - US Patent 11,010,233, 2021 - Google Patents
An exemplary monitoring system receives log data associated with an operation of a
hardware component, applies the log data as an input to an unsupervised machine learning …

Virtual machine allocation at physical resources

TP Winkler - US Patent 8,892,779, 2014 - Google Patents
Communications between virtual machines are monitored to identify virtual machines that
have an affinity with each other, such as where the virtual machines have greater than a …

Detection of writing to a non-header portion of a file as an indicator of a possible ransomware attack against a storage system

R Karr - US Patent 12,067,118, 2024 - Google Patents
An illustrative method includes detecting a request to perform an overwrite operation with
respect to a non-header portion of a file stored by a storage system and determining, based …

Identifying abnormal hosts using cluster processing

AA Eicher - US Patent 9,355,007, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method and apparatus for identifying abnormal clusters are disclosed. In
the method and apparatus, host activity data is received and cluster processing is performed …

Security threat monitoring for a storage system

A Bansal, O Watkins, J Hayase, N Bhargava… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
An exemplary security threat monitoring system receives performance metric data
representative of a performance metric for a storage system, applies the performance metric …

System and method for detecting and preventing service level agreement violation in a virtualized environment

R Ganesan, S Sarkar, A Roy - US Patent 9,935,865, 2018 - Google Patents
This technique determines the possible Service Level Agreement (SLA) violation during
migrating a workload from a physical environment to a virtualized environment and also …

Traffic-based detection of a security threat to a storage system

A Miller, R Karr, A Kutner, PD Lee… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
An illustrative method includes a data protection system determining that a total amount of
read traffic and write traffic processed by a storage system during a time period exceeds a …