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1 US A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. N0.: US 2009/ A1 BOBAK et al. (43) Pub. Date: Jul. 2, 2009 (54) ADAPTIVE BUSINESS RESILIENCY (21) Appl. No.: 11/966,495 COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS (22) Filed: Dec. 28, 2007 (75) Inventors: Mythili K. BOBAK, Lagrangeville, Publication Classi?cation NY (U S); Chun-Shi CHANG, Poughkeepsie, NY (US); Tim A. (51) Int Cl MCCONNELL, Lexington, KY G06F 9/50 (200691) (US); Michael D. SWANSON, Spring?eld OR (Us) (52) U.S. Cl /104 (73) Correspondence Address: (57) ABSTRACT HESLIN ROTHENBERG FARLEY & MESITI RC. 5 COLUMBIA CIRCLE ALBANY, NY (US) Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US) Programmatically adapting an Information Technology (IT) environment to changes associated With business applications of the IT environment. The programmatically adapting is performed in the context of the business application. The changes can re?ect changes in the IT environment, changes to the business application, changes to the business environment and/or failures Within the environment, as examples. M [[112 APPL ICATIBN CONTAINER APPLICATION BUSINESS RESILIENCE RUNTIHE OPERATING SYSTEM MEMORY CPU 102

cation NY (U S); Chun-Shi CHANG, Poughkeepsie, NY (US); Tim A. (51) Int Cl MCCONNELL, Lexington, KY G06F 9/50 (200691) (US); Michael D. SWANSON, Spring?eld OR (Us) (52) U.S. Cl...... 718/104 (73) Correspondence Address: (57) ABSTRACT HESLIN ROTHENBERG FARLEY & MESITI RC.

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5 Patent Application Publication Jul. 2, 2009 Sheet 4 0f 22 US 2009/ A1 If 400 BUSINESS RESILIENCE SYSTEM 414 I m BUSINESs m _ RESILIENCE n un- uln- _ - RUNTIME? _ ( 9* i > I \_ I RECOVERY OUANTg-T'BEFI 522E, $418 IE SE65? 2' er PS%) i I REDUNDANCY PATTERN SYSTEM " GREILIPS LN zuvmuunzms LN k I - l I BR MANAGER I _... CUNTAINMENT RELATIDNSHIP 426 I TRANSACTION BR ASYNCHREINEIUS 5* *? TABLE msmrauma I I I I. BR MANAGER BRM law-1+ na'ra TABLE. ACTIVITY LUG I l I u RVA'I' an R8 ACTIVITY p432 mm-3 BSELUG : I LIJG mm H : BR MANAGER (BRM) (1...N) L. * ~ _ _ m u _... _.... _...._.I,_ USER INTERFACE ADMIN an INSTALL s COMPONENT HNAILBDXH Lumc I AvArLAa'zu'rv cnur-muammu TEMPLATES -RECEIVERY SEGMENT TEMPLATES» ~5 0 -REDUNDANCY GROUP TEHPLATIES BR MGR TEMPLATES PAIRING TEMPLATES FIG. 4

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