Paris - 11 déc. 2014: IBM annonce aujourd’hui que ses chercheurs sont à l’origine de deux inventions brevetées relatives à l’optimisation du Cloud Computing grâce à l’Analytique. La première innovation permet d’allouer de façon dynamique les ressources Cloud virtuelles. La seconde, quant à elle, améliore l’analyse en temps réel des données Cloud.

L’Analytique pour améliorer la performance et réduire les coûts liés au Cloud Computing  

Les inventeurs d’IBM ont breveté une technique qui utilise l’analytique pour accroître la performance du Cloud Computing et réduire les coûts en déplaçant de façon dynamique les workloads – entre différents datacenters ou au sein d’un datacenter Cloud. Cette technique est basée sur une analyse automatique qui détermine l’utilisation la plus efficace et la plus efficiente des ressources disponibles.

L’invention brevetée d’IBM regroupe automatiquement les ressources Cloud Computing issues de différents datacenters. Ceci permet aux clients d’améliorer la performance et de faire des économies en réduisant le nombre d’interventions manuelles requises pour allouer le matériel, les logiciels et les services. Cette technique automatisée permet aux utilisateurs de mieux contrôler l’endroit d’où leurs workloads Cloud sont effectuées et la façon dont elles le sont. Elle facilite également l’utilisation optimale d’une infrastructure Cloud.

IBM a obtenu pour cette invention le brevet US n°8,676,981 B2 nommé “Routing Service Requests Based on Lowest Actual Cost within a Federated Virtual Service Cloud”.

La création d’une “voie rapide" pour l’analyse de données Cloud

Les chercheurs IBM ont breveté une invention qui améliore l’utilisation de l’Analytique pour évaluer et ordonner les données dans un environnement Cloud. Elle permet un traitement et une gestion des applications plus rapides et plus efficaces.

L’invention d’IBM, brevet US n°8,639,809, nommé “Predictive Removal Of Runtime Data Using Attribute Characterizing,” fournit des bénéfices spécifiques à un environnement Cloud, ainsi qu’aux autres systèmes informatiques, en analysant plus efficacement les données provenant de sources variées afin d'éviter les baisses de performance et les retards de traitement. Toutes les données n’étant pas égales, et les ressources pour les traiter, les stocker et les gérer étant limitées, l’Analytique en temps réel peut être utile pour accélérer ce processus.

« Le traitement de données dans le Cloud est similaire à la gestion des files d’attentes aux caisses dans les magasins : si vous n’achetez qu’un seul article, vous préférerez passer à une caisse rapide plutôt que d'attendre derrière quelqu’un qui fait des achats plus complexes », explique le chercheur d'IBM Michael Branson, qui a co-inventé cette technique brevetée avec John Santosuosso. « Les clients Cloud ne veulent pas que des données qui peuvent être analysées et utilisées simplement soient reléguées après des données qui nécessitent une analyse plus complexe. Appliquer l’Analytique en temps réel dans le Cloud peut permettre d’assurer que chaque donnée sera traitée de façon adéquate et au moment opportun. »

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Made in IBM Labs: Using Analytics to Optimize Cloud Computing Performance and Cost Savings

Patented IBM Invention Dynamically Allocates Virtual Cloud Resources

ARMONK, N.Y. - 09 Dec 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors have patented a technique that uses analytics to increase cloud computing performance and reduce costs by dynamically moving workloads -- between or within cloud centers -- based on an automatic analysis that determines the most efficient and effective use of available resources.

IBM’s patented invention automatically pools cloud computing resources from disparate cloud centers, enabling clients to improve performance and save money by reducing the amount of manual intervention needed to allocate hardware, software and services. The automated technique enables users have more control over where and how their cloud workloads are run and facilitates optimal use of a cloud infrastructure.

IBM received U.S. Patent #8,676,981 B2 “Routing Service Requests Based on Lowest Actual Cost within a Federated Virtual Service Cloud” for the invention.

“Cloud delivery models are evolving and maturing and are creating new possibilities for end-users and third-party service providers to lower costs for IT deployments as they enter new markets and create new solutions,” said Leonard Hand, IBM Master Inventor and lead inventor on the patent. “Our patented invention will give users more control over their cloud deployments so that they can extract the most value from their IT resources at the most optimal cost.”

Major cloud infrastructure providers like IBM are building global networks of cloud centers to deliver local services to clients around the world. Patent #8,676,981 can help streamline the management of local and geographically dispersed cloud hubs, while improving application performance and responsiveness by lowering latency of cloud deployments.

IBM’s patented dynamic cloud management invention could also be used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and channel resellers who leverage cloud infrastructure from third-party providers to build and deliver value-added solutions. MSPs could use IBM’s invention to isolate and automatically support their customers’ specific workload demands and truly enable usage-based-consumption pricing models.

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Made in IBM Labs: Creating Analytics “Express Lane” For Cloud Data

IBM invention enhances real-time analysis, make clouds more efficient

ARMONK, N.Y. - 09 Dec 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors have patented an invention that enhances the use of analytics for assessing and directing data in a cloud computing environment, enabling more timely and efficient application processing and management.

The IBM invention, U.S Patent #8,639,809, “Predictive Removal Of Runtime Data Using Attribute Characterizing,” can provide specific benefits for a cloud environment – as well as any IT system -- by more effectively analyzing data from a variety of sources to avoid performance inefficiencies and processing delays. Since not all data is equal and resources for processing, storing and managing information are finite, real-time analytics can be useful in expediting this process.

“Processing data in a cloud is similar to managing checkout lines at a store -- if you have one simple item to purchase, an express lane is preferable to waiting in line behind someone with a more complicated order,” said IBM Inventor Michael Branson, who co-invented the patented technique with John Santosuosso. “Cloud customers don’t want data that can be analyzed and dealt with simply to sit idle behind data that needs more complex analysis. Applying real-time analytics in a cloud can help ensure each piece of data gets the proper attention in a timely manner.”

Creating an “express lane” in analytics

This patented technique performs real-time analysis on data -- such as online transactions, readings from sensors, financial quotes, video streams, etc. -- as it is generated. It quickly determines how each piece of data will be processed, by identifying patterns in the data values that have correlated with slower processing in the past, to avoid situations where certain data values might delay the processing of all the data.

The cloud computing system then automatically channels each piece of data – also known as a tuple – down the right analysis path to ensure timely, efficient analysis. In essence, the invention creates an “express lane” for “normal” tuples ensuring that they are analyzed promptly, while tuples with values known to be problematic or that are very time consuming to analyze are sent down other analysis paths.

Applications for this invention in a cloud computing environment include:

• Sensor-based highway toll collection systems, where some license plates images may be harder to analyze than others because of lighting, camera issues, etc.;
• Intrusion detection on a data network system, where analysis can be made more efficient by identifying and rerouting malformed data packets for closer examination;
• Analysis of audio files in a call center (“This call may be monitored or recorded for quality-control purposes…”), where some files may contain background noise or other audio quality issues that require more processing.

The invention can be applied across IBM's portfolio of servers and could be used to optimize IBM’s InfoSphere Streams software offering. IBM InfoSphere Streams is an advanced analytic platform that allows user-developed applications to quickly ingest, analyze and correlate information as it arrives from thousands of real-time sources.

For 21 consecutive years, IBM has been the leading recipient of U.S. patents. IBM inventors have patented thousands of inventions that are expected to enable significant innovations that will position IBM to compete and lead in strategic areas, such as IBM Watson, cloud computing, Big Data analytics – and advance the new era of cognitive systems where machines will learn, reason and interact with people in more natural ways. IBM holds 1,560 cloud patents focused on driving innovation, with more than a third of these inventions originating in Systems and Technology Group.

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