Virtual Object Store Protocol Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloud storage systems face challenges in simplifying input/output (I/O) operations across different cloud providers due to varying application programming interfaces (APIs), requiring manual handling for each unique API, which complicates replication, migration, and caching between enterprise and public cloud object stores.
Innovation Solution
A virtual object store system that translates object requests from one protocol to another, allowing I/O operations to be performed across heterogeneous object store services, hiding protocol differences from users and enabling unified protocol communication for object-level I/O and event handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual handling of each unique API is required for different cloud providers, then compatibility with specific cloud services is achieved, but system complexity and operational difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a translation layer that acts as an intermediary between the virtual object store and multiple cloud provider APIs. This translation layer receives requests in a unified protocol, translates them to provider-specific protocols, and manages the complexity internally, thereby maintaining versatility while hiding system complexity from users.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual object store implements a universal interface that can communicate with multiple different cloud providers through a single unified protocol. This multi-functional design allows the system to work with various cloud services without requiring separate manual configurations for each provider, thus achieving versatility without proportionally increasing operational complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual handling of each unique API is required for different cloud providers, then specific cloud service compatibility is achieved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The translation layer serves as a mediator that abstracts away the complexity of multiple unique APIs. Users interact with a single unified protocol through the virtual object store, while the translation layer automatically handles the conversion to provider-specific protocols, thereby maintaining compatibility while dramatically improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs automatic protocol translation without requiring manual intervention. The virtual object store autonomously manages the conversion between unified and provider-specific protocols, eliminating the need for users to manually handle each unique API and thus improving operational simplicity while maintaining versatility.
3Reliability
If protocol differences are exposed to users, then accurate communication with different cloud stores is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The translation layer acts as an intermediary that ensures accurate communication with different cloud stores while hiding protocol differences. It receives requests in a unified protocol, translates them accurately to provider-specific protocols, and manages the complexity internally, thereby maintaining communication accuracy while preventing system complexity from propagating to users.
4Ease of operation
If unified protocol communication is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability to specific cloud APIs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The translation layer serves as a mediator that enables unified protocol communication to improve ease of operation while maintaining adaptability to specific cloud APIs. It translates the unified protocol requests into provider-specific protocols, ensuring that the simplified user interface does not compromise the system's ability to communicate accurately with diverse cloud services.
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AI summary
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising a processor and a memory. In some embodiments, the memory includes programmed instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to receive a first object request to execute an input/output (I/O) on an object stored in an on-premises object store, select a target cloud object store of a plurality of cloud object stores, translate the first object request to a second object request to execute the I/O on the object, and send the second object request to the target cloud object store. In some embodiments, the first object request is in accordance with a first protocol of the on-premises object store. In some embodiments, the plurality of object stores is coupled to the on-premises object store. In some embodiments, the second object request is in accordance with a second protocol of the target cloud object store.