IBM Filed 1200 Cloud Computing Patents in Last 18 Months

A recent report from DataQuest noted that IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced it has received over 400 new patents in 2015. Over the last 18 months, that number rises to 1200.
As quoted in the publication:

These new IBM cloud patents comprise a wide range of innovations, including enhancing and improving the speed of deployment and security of cloud data centers, as well as easing the management of cloud applications, storage and maintenance.

Examples include:

U.S. Patent #9,015,164: High availability for cloud server – A key attribute of a cloud computing environment is high availability. Aspects of the disclosed invention enable a cloud environment to take snapshots of virtual machines, which can then be used for recovery purposes.
U.S. Patent #8,949,415: Activity-based virtual machine availability in a networked computing environment – Aspects of the invention conserve network bandwidth used by a cloud resource, such as a virtual machine (VM), in response to a volume of high priority network traffic specifically designated for the VM falling below a threshold. Conserving network bandwidth may be accomplished by performing a network traffic disablement action with respect to network traffic to and from the VM, without disabling the VM. This can help to reduce costs charged by a cloud service provider for the amount of data transferred over a network to and from the VM.

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