Methods, systems and computer program products for data protection across computing infrastructure comprising a plurality of geographically distant computing clusters. The geographically distant computing clusters form a distributed system comprising clusters that are assigned into availability zones. Disaster recovery policies are maintained in each of the availability zones. A first cluster detects a modification of a disaster recovery policy. The modification of the disaster recovery policy that occurred at the first cluster is to be communicated over a wide area network. Synchronization of the disaster recovery policy is accomplished by carrying out a peer-to-peer communication protocol over the wide area network. The peer-to-peer communication protocol comprises issuing a first synchronization request message from a source peer, receiving the first synchronization request message at a remote peer, and issuing a synchronization response message by the remote peer, which in turn is transmitted over the wide area network to the source peer.

Methods, systems and computer program products for data protection across computing infrastructure comprising a plurality of geographically distant computing clusters. The geographically distant computing clusters form a distributed system comprising clusters that are assigned into availability zones. Disaster recovery policies are maintained in each of the availability zones. A first cluster detects a modification of a disaster recovery policy. The modification of the disaster recovery policy that occurred at the first cluster is to be communicated over a wide area network. Synchronization of the disaster recovery policy is accomplished by carrying out a peer-to-peer communication protocol over the wide area network. The peer-to-peer communication protocol comprises issuing a first synchronization request message from a source peer, receiving the first synchronization request message at a remote peer, and issuing a synchronization response message by the remote peer, which in turn is transmitted over the wide area network to the source peer.

A system includes a processor and an interface. The processor determines that a first user takes a first action and a second user takes a second action, where the time period between the first action and the second action is less than a threshold. In response, the processor causes the system to transmit at least one of a suggestion associated with the first user for display to the second user or a suggestion associated with the second user for display to the first user. In response to the processor causing to transmit the suggestion associated with the second user, the interface receives an indication that the first user approves of the suggestion associated with the second user. In response to the processor causing to transmit the suggestion associated with the first user, the interface receives an indication that the second user approves of the suggestion associated with the first user.

A system includes a processor and an interface. The processor determines that a first user takes a first action and a second user takes a second action, where the time period between the first action and the second action is less than a threshold. In response, the processor causes the system to transmit at least one of a suggestion associated with the first user for display to the second user or a suggestion associated with the second user for display to the first user. In response to the processor causing to transmit the suggestion associated with the second user, the interface receives an indication that the first user approves of the suggestion associated with the second user. In response to the processor causing to transmit the suggestion associated with the first user, the interface receives an indication that the second user approves of the suggestion associated with the first user.

A method of managing configurations of a plurality of data centers that are each managed by one or more management servers, includes the steps of: in response to a change made to the configurations of one of the data centers, updating a desired state document that specifies a desired state of each of the data centers, the updated desired state document including the change; and instructing each of the data centers to update the configurations thereof according to the desired state specified in the updated desired state document. The management servers include a virtual infrastructure management server and a virtual network management server and the configurations include configurations of software running in the virtual infrastructure management server and the virtual network management server, and configurations of the data center managed by the virtual infrastructure management server and the virtual network management server.

A method of managing configurations of a plurality of data centers that are each managed by one or more management servers, includes the steps of: in response to a change made to the configurations of one of the data centers, updating a desired state document that specifies a desired state of each of the data centers, the updated desired state document including the change; and instructing each of the data centers to update the configurations thereof according to the desired state specified in the updated desired state document. The management servers include a virtual infrastructure management server and a virtual network management server and the configurations include configurations of software running in the virtual infrastructure management server and the virtual network management server, and configurations of the data center managed by the virtual infrastructure management server and the virtual network management server.

An apparatus and method for synchronized content display across a plurality of devices are disclosed herein. Content specified at a first device is deployed to the rest of the plurality of devices that are of diverse device types to each other. The first device instructs the other devices to render the content at each of the respective devices according to the respective device's content viewer and configuration. The first device also instructs the other devices to achieve a certain setting or state pertaining to true rendering of the content depending on the type of content to be rendered.

A document management apparatus includes a first transmitting unit, a determination unit, and a second transmitting unit. The first transmitting unit transmits a first document to a terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus. The determination unit determines, based on a period of time for which it is predicted that communication between the terminal apparatus and the document management apparatus is disabled, a second document which is related to the first document. The second transmitting unit transmits the second document to the terminal apparatus.

A method for replicating a set of parent resources from an administrator namespace to a set of tenant namespaces is described. The method includes receiving, by the administrator namespace, a global object that includes a set of object fields that reference (1) a set of parent resources and (2) the set of tenant namespaces; monitoring, by an operator controller of the administrator namespace, the global object to determine whether a change has been made to the global object; and replicating, by the operator controller, the set of parent resources to the set of tenant namespaces as child resources based on the global object in response to detecting a change to the global object.

A method for replicating a set of parent resources from an administrator namespace to a set of tenant namespaces is described. The method includes receiving, by the administrator namespace, a global object that includes a set of object fields that reference (1) a set of parent resources and (2) the set of tenant namespaces; monitoring, by an operator controller of the administrator namespace, the global object to determine whether a change has been made to the global object; and replicating, by the operator controller, the set of parent resources to the set of tenant namespaces as child resources based on the global object in response to detecting a change to the global object.