Storage Transformation Service Proxy for Legacy Data
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data storage migration processes are cumbersome, time-consuming, and resource-intensive, especially for large legacy storage systems, and often require human intervention, making it difficult to apply new solutions to both new and old storage systems.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a storage transformation service that automates the process by creating a proxy for the legacy storage system, allowing new solutions to be applied without actual data migration, using features like multiple users, containers, and access control lists, and enabling parallel processing to reduce overhead and speed up the transformation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data is migrated from legacy storage to new storage, then new solutions can be applied to legacy data, but the process is time-consuming and produces high load on storages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a storage transformation service as an intermediary layer between the legacy storage and new storage systems. This service enables new solutions to be applied to legacy data without actual data migration by creating a proxy that translates access requests. The transformation service acts as a mediator that allows legacy storage to benefit from new capabilities while avoiding the time-consuming migration process.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of physically migrating data, the system creates a virtual copy or proxy of the legacy storage through the transformation service. This proxy enables new solutions to interact with legacy data as if it were in the new storage system, eliminating the need for actual data movement and significantly reducing migration time.
2Adaptability or versatility
If data is migrated from legacy storage to new storage, then new solutions can be applied to legacy data, but high load is produced on storages
Solution Approach 1:
The storage transformation service serves as an intermediary that handles translation and access requests, preventing direct high-load interactions between new solutions and legacy storage. The service absorbs and manages the load, protecting the legacy storage system from excessive demands while enabling new capabilities.
3Extent of automation
If manual processes are used for storage transformation, then human intervention can handle complex cases, but automation level is low and operability is complex
Solution Approach 1:
The storage transformation service implements self-service capabilities by automatically detecting storage types, selecting appropriate transformation strategies, and executing the transformation process without requiring deep human intervention. The system autonomously manages complex transformation tasks while providing a simplified interface for users.
4Productivity
If legacy storage is abandoned, then migration to new storage can be completed, but businesses hesitate and the process becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The transformation service acts as an intermediary that enables gradual transition rather than forced migration. Businesses can continue using legacy storage while new solutions are applied through the transformation service, eliminating the need to abandon legacy systems and reducing the complexity and difficulty of the transformation process.
Data Source
AI summary
A transformation service is provided for a plurality of transformation jobs associated with one or more storage containers. A single transformation user runs enumeration tasks associated with data stored in the one or more storage containers. When two or more of the plurality of transformation jobs are active during a time interval, the single transformation user runs an enumeration task for all of the active transformation jobs during said time interval.