Dynamic capacity assessment of devices in a data center
Granted: December 1, 2020
Patent Number:
10855567
In some examples, a computing device comprises at least one computer processor; and a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processor cause the at least one computer processor to: receive feature usage data indicating respective usages of a plurality of network device features configured for the network device; receive resource utilization data indicating resource utilization of the network device resource by each of the network device features at…
Power supply load control using frequency
Granted: November 3, 2020
Patent Number:
10826293
A power supply system includes a plurality of UPSs configured to provide output power to one or more loads using AC power drawn from a supply bus and energy stored at respective energy modules of the plurality of UPSs. Each UPS of the plurality of UPSs comprises a corresponding frequency sensor configured to generate an indication of a frequency of the AC power at the supply bus. The plurality of UPSs comprises a first UPS configured to draw the AC power from the supply bus when the…
Layer three instances for a cloud-based services exchange
Granted: October 27, 2020
Patent Number:
10819630
In general, this disclosure describes a programmable network platform for dynamically programming a cloud exchange to provide a layer three (L3) routing instance as a service to customers of the cloud exchange. In one example, a cloud exchange comprises an L3 network located within a data center and configured with an L3 routing instance for an enterprise; and for the L3 routing instance, respective first and second attachment circuits for first and second cloud service provider networks…
Data center agent for data center infrastructure monitoring data access and translation
Granted: October 27, 2020
Patent Number:
10819556
In some examples, a method includes obtaining, by a data center infrastructure monitoring (DCIM) agent executing on a computing device deployed by a data center provider within a first data center of a plurality of geographically-distributed data centers, an infrastructure asset data object comprising infrastructure asset data for a physical infrastructure asset of a second data center of the plurality of geographically-distributed data centers; translating, by the DCIM agent using an…
Determining power path for data center customers
Granted: October 20, 2020
Patent Number:
10812339
A data center infrastructure monitoring system and method that includes a plurality of geographically distributed data centers, each data center comprising a plurality of physical infrastructure assets. A data center gateway system communicatively coupled to one or more data centers of the plurality of data centers is configured to receive a request from a customer of a data center of the plurality of data centers to display a real-time power path that shows a current flow of power…
Latency equalization
Granted: September 22, 2020
Patent Number:
10785144
Techniques for enforcing a common signaling latency between components positioned throughout a data center in order to realize latency equalization even though interconnects between components positioned throughout the data center do not by comparison necessarily exhibit a same total physical length.
Rack level power control
Granted: September 22, 2020
Patent Number:
10782757
In some examples, a method includes acquiring status information of at least one resource of a data center, estimating, based on the status information, whether load on a power supply will exceed a threshold value at a time subsequent a time of the estimating, and in response to estimating that load on the power supply will exceed the threshold value at the time subsequent the time of the estimating, transmitting a command signal to a server rack that is coupled to the power supply to…
Data center security services
Granted: September 8, 2020
Patent Number:
10771252
This disclosure describes techniques for securely, efficiently, and/or effectively providing cryptographic operations and key management services. Systems in accordance with one or more aspects of the present disclosure may provide secure management of cryptographic keys as service to a plurality of data center users or customers that contract for services provided by a data center. In one example, this disclosure describes a data center comprising a plurality of cloud service provider…
Near real-time messaging service for data center infrastructure monitoring data
Granted: September 1, 2020
Patent Number:
10764217
In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a data center infrastructure monitoring system, a registration request that indicates a method of a subscription application programming interface and specifies one or more event subjects of events describing a system operation of a data center; storing, by the data center infrastructure monitoring system to a data-topic map, respective mappings for the one or more event subjects to a topic of a cloud-based publication platform;…
Modular cage enclosure system
Granted: September 1, 2020
Patent Number:
10765031
In some examples, a system includes a plurality of posts and a plurality of cage panels, wherein each of the cage panels is removably coupled to one or more of the plurality of posts, wherein a nominal width of each of the cage panels is congruent based on a modulus, wherein an actual width of each of the cage panels is equal to a difference between the nominal width of the cage panel and the width of one of the plurality of posts, and wherein any combination of a subset of the plurality…
Interconnection platform for real-time configuration and management of a cloud-based services exhange
Granted: September 1, 2020
Patent Number:
10764126
In one example, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect a customer of the cloud-based services exchange to one or more cloud service providers, the plurality of interconnection assets including a virtual circuit by which the customer accesses a cloud service from the one or more cloud service providers; and an orchestration engine configured to modify the plurality of interconnection assets.
Monitoring and performance improvement of enterprise applications using correlated data associated with a plurality of service layers
Granted: August 25, 2020
Patent Number:
10756990
This disclosure describes, in some examples, techniques for improving, adjusting, and/or optimizing the infrastructure of a network. This disclosure also describes techniques for monitoring a network using a ping utility integrated into the monitoring platform described herein at the application service level. This disclosure further describes techniques for monitoring database performance through data collected by, for example, database scripts that capture the response time for…
Inter-metro connectivity network connect
Granted: August 11, 2020
Patent Number:
10742721
In general, techniques are described for dynamically programming a cloud-based service exchange to enable connections from an enterprise buyer in one metropolitan area to connect to a cloud exchange in another metropolitan area. For example, a network data center includes a programmable network platform to receive an indication of a network service provider (NSP) configured to transport traffic to a customer in a second metropolitan area; provision a virtual circuit from a…
Data center viewing system
Granted: April 14, 2020
Patent Number:
10623680
A method includes receiving, by an asset privacy system, an input video feed that includes images of one or more assets located within a data center, identifying, by the asset privacy system, one or more corresponding assets for the images of the one or more assets, determining, by the asset privacy system, an asset of the one or more assets a customer is not authorized to view, and generating, from the input video feed, by the asset privacy system based at least on the determining, an…
Limiting alarms in an asset monitoring system
Granted: February 25, 2020
Patent Number:
10574558
In one example, a method includes receiving, by a computing system, first data defining an alarm associated with an infrastructure asset, the alarm having an alarm condition that causes a notification to be output indicating the alarm condition is met, and receiving, by the computing system, second data defining a one-time trigger condition for the alarm. The method also includes, in response to determining that the alarm condition is met and the one-time trigger condition for the alarm…
Defining conditional triggers for issuing data center asset information
Granted: February 25, 2020
Patent Number:
10574529
A data center infrastructure monitoring system and method that includes a plurality of geographically distributed data centers, each having a plurality of physical infrastructure assets. A data center gateway system is communicatively coupled to one or more data centers of plurality of data centers and configured to receive data for configuring an alert specifying one or more data center assets to monitor for a primary alert event, an event type for the primary alert event, and a…
Near real-time feed manager for data center infrastructure monitoring (DCIM) using custom tags for infrastructure assets
Granted: February 18, 2020
Patent Number:
10567244
A messaging service is disclosed that provides access to data center event data for physical infrastructure assets via dynamically configurable custom tags defined by customers. For example, a network services exchange provider or co-location provider deploys a data center monitoring system that monitors physical infrastructure assets that enable system operation within a data center for events. The system implements an API which applies custom tags defined by customers to the assets,…
Power supply and distribution skid frames for data centers
Granted: February 18, 2020
Patent Number:
10568231
A system apparatus and method for providing electrical power to multiple customer devices within a data center that includes a power supply skid frame having a top portion and a bottom portion, a power supply portion physically separate from the power supply skid frame and capable of being positioned on the top portion of the power supply skid frame to supply the electrical power, a power distribution skid frame, mechanically and electrically separate from the power supply skid frame,…
Service overlay model for a co-location facility
Granted: February 18, 2020
Patent Number:
10567519
In some examples, a method includes identifying, by a service overlay model engine executing at a computing device of a co-location facility provider, a plurality of service providers offering a service, the plurality of service providers co-located at one or more co-location facilities of the co-location facility provider; obtaining, by the service overlay model engine, first data obtained from the plurality of service providers describing the service; generating, by the service overlay…
Network connection service high availability evaluation for co-location facilities
Granted: February 18, 2020
Patent Number:
10567252
Techniques are disclosed for evaluating and facilitating high availability for network connection services provided by network infrastructure of one or more co-location facilities. For example, a computing system receives data from each network device in one or more co-location facilities, the data indicating the respective capability of each network feature of each network device to provide highly available operation across a plurality of communication model layers for supporting a…
