Cloud File Manager Visualization for Tenant Data Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud storage services limit users' ability to manage and organize their data, as they often store data across multiple data centers and share hardware with other users, leading to potential data security and location control issues.
Innovation Solution
A cloud file manager system that provides a data visualization interface, allowing tenants to view and manage their data storage across multiple data centers, define storage profiles, and dynamically modify storage locations, enhancing data management flexibility and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If cloud storage services use multitenant architecture to share hardware and data centers, then cost-effectiveness and resource utilization are improved, but users lose control over data storage location and organization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud file manager as an intermediary layer between users and the multitenant cloud storage infrastructure. This mediator provides users with visualization and control capabilities over their data storage locations without requiring changes to the underlying shared hardware architecture. The cloud file manager translates user management requests into appropriate storage operations, enabling data organization and location control while maintaining the cost-effective multitenant architecture.
2Ease of operation
If cloud storage providers manage hardware and configuration centrally, then user burden for maintenance and configuration is reduced, but users lose ability to organize and manage their data storage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments data management functionality into distinct components within the cloud file manager, including data visualization, storage profile definition, and location control features. This segmentation allows users to access specific data organization capabilities without needing to understand or manage the underlying complex infrastructure. Users can define storage profiles and control data locations through simplified interfaces while the provider maintains centralized hardware management.
3Reliability
If data is stored across multiple data centers for reliability and scalability, then service availability is improved, but users cannot track or control data location
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms through the cloud file manager that provide users with real-time or near-real-time information about data storage locations across multiple data centers. The system continuously monitors and reports data location information to users through visualization interfaces, enabling them to track where their data is stored. This feedback loop maintains service reliability through distributed storage while keeping users informed about data locations through regular status updates and visual representations.
Data Source
AI summary
In certain embodiments, techniques are provided (e.g., a method, a system, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) to provide data visualization and management services for files stored in a cloud storage system. In some embodiments, a tenant (e.g., an end user, customer, or subscriber to a cloud storage service) can view how their data is stored across data centers within a cloud storage service. A cloud file manager can analyze the tenant's data stored in the cloud storage service, and generate a data visualization interface that provides a fine grained visual representation of the tenant's data across the cloud storage service. In some embodiments, the tenant can define storage profiles and/or modify existing data storage locations dynamically through the data visualization interface. This simplifies data management for the tenants and provides increased flexibility of managing data in the cloud storage service.