Intelligent Routing System for Geographic Data Governance
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Solution Overview
Problem
In cloud computing, users lack control over the geographic location of their data, which poses challenges for data security and legal compliance due to diverse and distributed data storage across multiple regions, with regulations often requiring data to be stored within specific geographic boundaries.
Innovation Solution
An intelligent routing system that allows users to specify geographic regions for data storage using file attributes or predefined rules, ensuring data is physically stored within user-specified locations, thereby enabling compliance with laws and regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data is stored in a distributed cloud network across multiple geographic regions, then cloud computing scalability and user experience are improved, but user control over data location is lost and legal compliance becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of file attributes and application of predefined rules before data storage to determine the appropriate geographic region. This advance decision-making process ensures data is routed to compliant locations without requiring user intervention during storage operations.
Solution Approach 2:
An intelligent routing system acts as an intermediary between users and the distributed cloud storage infrastructure. This mediator automatically determines data location based on file attributes and rules, translating user compliance requirements into specific storage location decisions without exposing users to system complexity.
2Productivity
If data is stored in a distributed cloud network across multiple geographic regions, then cloud computing scalability is improved, but data security and legal compliance are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different storage location strategies to different data based on file attributes and rules. Each data element receives customized routing decisions tailored to its specific compliance requirements, rather than applying a uniform storage policy across all data.
Solution Approach 2:
The intelligent routing system continuously monitors file attributes and rule changes, adjusting data routing decisions in response to changing compliance requirements. This feedback mechanism ensures ongoing compliance as regulations and data characteristics evolve.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for controlling a geographic region of data in cloud computing are described. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure including a combination of hardware and software includes: receiving a request from a local computing device to save data on a network including a plurality of data storage locations in a plurality of different geographic regions; determining a specified geographic region of the plurality of different geographic regions by analyzing at least one of: (i) file attributes associated with the data, and (ii) predefined rules; identifying one of the plurality of data storage locations within the specified geographic region based on the determining step; and routing the data to the identified one of the plurality of data storage locations within the specified geographic region.