Cloud Storage Interface for Unified Backup Across Hybrid Data Centers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing and protecting data across both cloud and on-premise data centers is challenging due to the lack of expertise among cloud providers in understanding both environments.
Innovation Solution
A centralized cloud-based storage service user interface (SSUI) that integrates with both cloud and on-premise data centers, enabling unified management and protection of data through a single interface, utilizing a storage micro-service and on-premise management system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud providers use separate management systems for cloud and on-premise data centers, then they can maintain specialized expertise for each environment, but data management becomes complex and requires multiple interfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines cloud-based storage management and on-premise data center management into a single unified interface. The cloud manager presents a consolidated view of storage resources from both cloud and on-premise environments, allowing users to manage heterogeneous storage systems through one interface rather than multiple separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud manager is designed as a universal management platform that can handle both cloud-based storage objects and on-premise storage objects through the same interface. It provides multi-functional capabilities to provision, monitor, and manage storage resources across different environments (cloud and on-premise) using consistent operations.
2Ease of operation
If cloud providers implement a unified management interface for both cloud and on-premise environments, then ease of operation improves, but the system requires broader expertise to handle both environments
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud manager acts as an intermediary layer between the user and the heterogeneous storage environments. It abstracts the complexity of different storage systems (cloud and on-premise) behind a unified interface, translating user operations into environment-specific actions without requiring users to understand the underlying environmental differences.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the management functionality into a cloud-based management plane and separate storage planes for cloud and on-premise environments. This segmentation allows the unified interface to operate independently of the specific environment implementations, maintaining ease of operation while adapting to different underlying systems.
3Reliability
If separate management approaches are used for cloud and on-premise storage, then each system can be optimized independently, but productivity decreases due to managing multiple systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges cloud storage management and on-premise storage management into a single cloud manager system. This consolidation allows users to perform storage operations across both environments through one interface, eliminating the need to switch between multiple management systems and thereby improving productivity.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for managing storage is provided. One method includes initializing, a storage service user interface (“SSUI”) within a cloud manager user interface (“CMUI”), the SSUI enables a storage service operation selected from a backup operation, a restore operation and a cloning operation associated with a storage object stored at a cloud volume presented by a cloud layer, the CMUI presented by a cloud provider; transmitting, by the SSUI, an authorization token to a Software As a Service (“SaaS”) layer for authenticating deployment of the SSUI; upon validating the authorization token, initializing a SSUI agent to interface with a deployed storage micro-service layer offered by the cloud layer to execute the storage service operation; transmitting, by the SSUI, an application programming interface (API) request for the SSUI agent for executing the storage service operation; and executing, by the deployed storage micro-service layer, the storage service operation.