Volume Placement Labels for Compliant Disaster-Aware Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data storage management systems face challenges in efficiently managing data volumes due to legal restrictions and disaster recovery issues, leading to potential violations and inefficiencies, particularly when sensitive information is involved.
Innovation Solution
A storage managing system that assigns placement defining labels to volumes, determining appropriate regions for data storage based on legal requirements and disaster protection, and outputs alerts or recommendations for risk mitigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If all data used in an application is stored in a location that fulfils relevant legal requirements, then compliance with legal restrictions is ensured, but data storage efficiency decreases and management costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments data into different sensitivity levels (sensitive information vs. other data) and applies different storage location requirements to each segment. This allows sensitive data to be stored in compliant locations while non-sensitive data can be stored more flexibly, thereby maintaining legal compliance while improving storage efficiency and reducing costs.
2Productivity
If data is stored in smaller units (per data piece) rather than per application, then storage efficiency improves, but management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary classification mechanism that automatically categorizes data into sensitivity levels. This intermediary layer simplifies management by providing clear classification rules and automated assignment, reducing the complexity that would otherwise arise from managing individual data pieces while still enabling fine-grained storage efficiency improvements.
3Ease of operation
If remote copy destination is set incorrectly in cloud services, then setup ease is improved, but legal compliance and disaster recovery reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that monitor and verify the correctness of remote copy destination settings. The system provides alerts and notifications when settings may violate legal requirements or disaster recovery policies, enabling operators to correct errors while maintaining ease of setup. This feedback loop ensures reliability without significantly complicating the operation.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention makes it possible to manage a volume appropriately. A storage managing system for managing a plurality of volumes such that a placement defining label that defines a region where data relative to each of the volumes is to be placed is assigned to the volume for management includes a CPU determining whether the region where data relative to a predetermined one of the volumes is to be placed is appropriate or not, on the basis of the placement defining label assigned to the predetermined volume, and outputting an alert indicating that the region where the data relative to the predetermined volume is to be placed is not appropriate, when determining that the region where the data is placed is not appropriate.