33 results about "Information lifecycle management" patented technology

A method dramatically reduces the amount of data to be stored and transferred in a networked storage system. Preferably, the network storage system provides continued data protection through mirroring/replication, disk-to-disk backup, data archiving for future retrieval, and Information Lifecycle management (ILM). The idea is to leverage the parity computation that exists in RAID systems. By caching, transferring, and storing data parity or delta bytes of changes on a block as opposed to data block itself, substantial data reduction is possible without using sophisticated compression algorithms at the production side to minimize performance impacts upon production servers. Data can be computed using the parity/delta and previously existing data at mirror side, replication side, backup storage, or at retrieval time upon events such as failures or ILM operations.

A technique for implementing policy-aware backup and restore capability in a tiered storage system. If a data set's contents are backed up from the tiered storage system to a backup storage system, metadata for the data set may also be backed up. Prior to the data set being restored from the backup storage system to the tiered storage system, the backed up metadata is restored and processed to determine a tier among the tiered storage pools to which the data set will be restored.

An automated information lifecycle management (ILM) system for network storage automatically searches a network storage system to identify data items stored therein. The network storage system includes multiple data storage facilities of different types coupled to a network. The ILM system automatically classifies each of the data items into a category of multiple data categories, and automatically optimizes each of the data items to a particular data storage facility of the multiple data storage facilities, according to the category into which the data item was classified. The ILM system may also automatically discover and detect storage devices added to the network and assign them to the proper storage class, for storing data of the corresponding category. The ILM system further may automatically determine or predict when additional storage capacity is needed for any particular class of storage and may alert a user accordingly and/or free up additional storage capacity.

The invention provides a system and method for a network operating system. The system includes a complex data medium that enables the continuous reconciliation of the collaborative information process and product. The system generally increases productivity by enabling a network dynamic among knowledge workers. The system unifies e-mail and shared file management, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, serial and parallel work flow, top-down and bottom-up collaboration, and information lifecycle management.

A system and method for specifying the placement of and managing the placement of objects on a distributed networked grid. Some embodiments of the invention comprise a user interface for specifying rules for the placement of objects on the grid and an execution module that places objects on the grid based on the rules specified. Rules may comprise a matching criteria specification, which determines whether a rule applies to a particular object, and a placement specification, which directs the locations at which an object will be placed under the rule.

A system and method for managing automatic data protection features, e.g., backup scheduling and data storage capabilities, e.g., policy provisioning of a storage system to enable information lifecycle management of data served by the system. A novel management module executes within a storage operating system of the storage system to manage the automatic scheduling of backup operations for data based on a minimal set of user configurations. The management module cooperates with a mirroring application to manage the generation of persistent consistency point image (PCPIs) used as backups (replicas) of the data. The management module distributes the data containers scheduled for PCPI generation among time slots within a defined backup time window. At the appropriate time slot, each PCPI the data container is illustratively backed up from the primary storage space to the secondary storage space.

A method, system, and computer program product for providing read ahead and caching in an information lifecycle management system of a host system is provided. The method includes monitoring data access activities performed by requesting entities of the host system. The method also includes building an index of sampled data accesses that include metadata of requests for data access and resulting data content and utilizing the index of sampled data accesses to determine data access trends based upon results of the monitoring. The method further includes determining correlations between multiple accesses' metadata and the resulting data content, initiating a search of multi-tiered storage devices of the host system for other content, the other content relating to the content sampled in the index, and migrating data resulting from the search to a high tier storage location of the host system in anticipation of future demand for the data.

A method, apparatus, and system for custom policy driven data placement and information lifecycle management in a database management system are provided. A user or database application can specify declarative custom policies that define the movement and transformation of stored database objects. A custom policy defines, for a database object, a custom function to evaluate on an associated database object to determine whether an archiving action is triggered. Archiving actions may include compression, data movement, table clustering, and other actions to place the database object into an appropriate storage tier for a lifecycle phase of the database object. The custom function is defined by the database user, and can flexibly include any customized business logic using data sources internal and external to the database, including database access statistics such as segment level or block level heatmaps.

An information management system for modifying action of system in accordance with previously set policy with reference to metadata and/or log data accompanying data to be managed makes efficient information lifecycle management by reducing the grading of the data to be managed and increasing the expressive power of the definable policy while suppressing increase of the amount of necessary metadata and/or log data. The ontology for defining the relation between terms referred in business level is introduced and analyzed together with the policy, so that the range necessary for acquisition of information can be clearly decided to thereby reduce time and labor required for modification of setting and the operation management cost and optimize necessary resources.

Even when information lifecycle management is applied to management object data of a database management system, inquiry service performance offered by the database management system can be guaranteed. Data arrangement managing system performs data arrangement settings in respect of management object data of the database management system and has a data arrangement setting creating module for determining possible data arrangement candidates and a data arrangement setting exchanging module for transferring the data arrangement candidates to the database management system. In the database management system, in respect of the individual data arrangement candidates transmitted to the database management system, execution profiles of service presupposing the candidates are created which are decided as to whether to satisfy a condition on database performance designated by a user and a narrowing down module narrows down the candidates to only data arrangement candidates satisfying the condition.

For information lifecyle management (ILM) a process receives a user-definition of ILM actions, data state transitions, and associations among the respective data state transitions and ILM actions and responsively storing a data structure representing the received data state transitions, ILM actions, and correspondence among the respective data state transitions and ILM actions. The A process for an ILM model detects a workflow definition event in a monitored process running on a computer system. An information lifcycle flow data structure for the workflow definition is stored responsive to the workflow definition in the monitored process having a data state transition matching one of the user-defined data state transitions, wherein the information lifcycle flow data structure models the matching data state transition, so that the ILM action corresponding to the matching data state transition may be performed for the data responsive to occurrence of a workflow process event in which the matching data state transition occurs.

The invention discloses a label expanding method based on MPLS (multi-protocol label switching), which comprises the following steps: dividing a value range in overall labels, wherein each label within the value range is set as a first stage example specific label for representing a label space; identifying an FEC and then distributing an undistributed label in the label space of the first stage example specific label; adding the label operation of the specific label in the overall labels as a popping label and reorienting the popping label in an ILM (information lifecycle management) list used for transmitting the first example specific label; and informing representation of the FEC and the label and the first stage example specific label affiliating the presentation to a reciprocal body. Based on the same inventive concept, the invention also provides a device, which can solve resource shortage problem faced by the overall labels.

Method and system are disclosed for automatically discovering associations between applications and data in multi-tiered distributed systems. The method in one aspect uses a machine-readable specification of a model or template that describes use and transformation of data by software components. The method additionally utilizes a model of system configuration and appropriate runtime support to mine information available from systems management software present in enterprise systems. The application-data association discovery process performs a traversal of the distributed system configuration graph with actions taken during this traversal driven by the contents of the templates for the software components present in the system. The results of the application-data association discovery process are stored in a database and may be used to specify application-specific information lifecycle management (ILM) policy or as input to impact analysis tools in access control and antivirus systems.

The invention discloses an IT information asset management system, belonging to the technical field of IT information management, the system comprising a client, an asset management platform and a database. The asset management platform is connected with the client and the database. The asset management platform includes file server, an application server deployed in a cluster mode and a data processing server. The database comprises a storage device and a database server A and a data server B arranged in a dual-machine hot standby mode. The whole operation environment is built based on the Internet cloud platform, and the efficient circulation of various kinds of asset information submission, examination and analysis is realized through the IT information asset management system.