A FUNCTIONAL SKETCH FOR RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS FOR BUSINESS

This paper presents a functional design sketch for the resource management module of a highly scalable collaborative system. Small and medium enterprises require such tools in order to benefit from and develop innovative business ideas and technologies. As computing power is a modern increasing demand and no easy and cheap solutions are defined, especially small companies or emerging business projects abide a more accessible alternative. Our work targets to settle a model for how P2P architecture can be used as infrastructure for a collaborative system that delivers resource access services. We are focused on finding a workable collaborative strategy between peers so that the system offers a cheap, trustable and quality service. Thus, in this phase we are not concerned about solutions for a specific type of task to be executed by peers, but only considering CPU power as resource. This work concerns the resource management module as a part of a larger project in which we aim to build a collaborative system for businesses with important resource demandsresource management, p2p, open-systems, service oriented computing, collaborative systems

Automatic/Scalable Firmware and System Software update on Datacenter Products like Server, Storage and Network devices

The invention makes the Datacenter intelligent and scalable in case of “Firmware and System Software updates”. Datacenter ecosystem generally consists of following major components Datacenter Products (Servers, Storage and Network devices) Central Management System (Manages the lifecycle of Datacenter Products). Administrators (Humans maintaining the datacenter) The innovation introduces a new way to do Firmware and System software upgrade and fresh installation on Datacenter Products. This is achieved with two newly introduced software: Smart Update Module The Store Smart Update Module: The Smart Update Module is intelligent software running on a Management Processor. Management processor is small integrated chip inside each Datacenter Product dedicated for managing the lifecycle of each individual Product. Capabilities of the Smart Update Module: Collects the inventory of Firmware and System software of the host Datacenter product. Compares the collected inventory with the Store to check if there are any latest Firmware and System software available for upgrade or fresh installation. Sends alerts to Central Management System (Manager) to notify the Administrator to plan for upgrade. Finally based on Administrator’s planned maintenance window, downloads the Firmware and System Software and upgrades the product. The product can be a Server, Storage and Network devices. The Store: The Store is cloud platform which provides Firmware and System Software over the internet. Capabilities of the Store: The Store contains a huge collection of Firmware and System software required for each Datacenter Product to be usable. The Store always maintains the latest available collection of Firmware and System Software to facilitate upgrades of existing firmware and System software. The Store allows the Smart Update Module to connect and compare its inventory of Firmware and System software against the latest available in the Store. The Store allows the Smart Update Module to pull latest Firmware and System Software for upgrade or fresh installation in case of newly added Datacenter Products. Together with the Smart Update Module and the Store, the entire Firmware and System software upgrade and fresh installation can be made scalable, with increased performance, lightweight Central Management System (Manager) and the entire process is automated

A Web‐Based Instructional Module for Research and Learning in Design and Analysis of Enterprise Systems

This paper describes an instructional module designed to create a repository for introducing students and industry practitioners to enterprise systems. A web‐based design was used to make the module scalable, utilizing Internet capabilities and adapting a systemic approach to disseminate information on research projects. Important characteristics of a web site for organizing information are described. A generic web design problem is outlined and a case study on supply chain management is illustrated. Uses of the module on curricula that satisfy cognitive goals of enterprise system education are discussed. The module offers extensibility to incorporate live applications through the web site.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/95033/1/j.2168-9830.2001.tb00588.x.pd