Storage Management System for Data Flow Classification
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of communication network storage infrastructures leads to inefficiencies, including uninformed decisions on storage system selection, personnel deployment, and cost analysis, resulting in wasted expenses and difficulty in managing the vast and intricate systems.
Innovation Solution
A data storage infrastructure with tiered storage systems and a storage management system that assigns data flows to appropriate service classes based on rigorous analysis of factors such as data classification, priority, and compliance requirements, using a GUI to facilitate operator input and ensure consistent and disciplined decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a diverse set of storage equipment and software from multiple suppliers is used to provide data storage, then storage capacity and functionality are improved, but system complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple storage systems from different suppliers into a unified storage infrastructure managed by a single management system. This merging approach maintains the diverse storage capacity while consolidating management functions, thereby reducing the complexity impact of having multiple suppliers and systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The storage management system is designed to universally manage diverse storage equipment and software from multiple suppliers through a single interface. This multi-functional management approach allows the system to handle different storage technologies and vendors uniformly, reducing management complexity while preserving storage capacity benefits.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple individual management systems are used for each storage supplier, then each supplier's specific requirements are met, but overall management efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The storage management system provides universal management capabilities that work with multiple storage suppliers and their different requirements. This single multi-functional system replaces multiple individual management systems, maintaining supplier compatibility while significantly improving overall management efficiency through centralized control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple individual management systems into a single unified management system that handles all storage suppliers. This consolidation maintains the ability to meet each supplier's specific requirements while improving management efficiency by eliminating the need to switch between multiple separate systems.
3Speed
If uninformed decisions are made on storage system selection, then deployment speed is maintained, but resource allocation efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The storage management system performs preliminary analysis and evaluation of storage systems before selection and deployment. This pre-assessment capability enables informed decisions about storage system selection, ensuring optimal resource allocation while maintaining efficient deployment speeds through automated evaluation processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that provide information about storage system performance and resource allocation effectiveness. This feedback enables continuous improvement of storage selections and resource allocation decisions, maintaining deployment speed while enhancing allocation efficiency through data-driven insights.
4Quantity of substance
If the storage infrastructure grows large and complex over time, then storage capacity increases, but cost analysis and tracking difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The storage management system consolidates cost analysis and tracking functions for the entire storage infrastructure into a unified interface. This merging of cost management capabilities allows effective analysis and tracking of costs even as the storage infrastructure grows large and complex, maintaining visibility into total cost of ownership across all storage systems.
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AI summary
A data storage infrastructure is disclosed for a communication network that produces a plurality of data flows of network data. The data storage infrastructure comprises a plurality of data storage systems and a storage management system. The data storage systems are configured to store the network data using a plurality of service classes, wherein different ones of the data storage systems provide different ones of the service classes. The storage management system is configured to process characteristics for the data flows to assign individual ones of the data flows to individual ones of a plurality of information classes and to assign individual ones of the data flows to individual ones of the data storage systems based on the information class assignments.