公开(公告)号：EP2067104A1

公开(公告)日：2009-06-10

申请号：EP07827147.5

申请日：2007-09-24

申请人： Xeround Systems Ltd. ,  Xeround Inc.

发明人： ROMEM, Yaniv ,  ZLOTKIN, Gilad ,  GILDERMAN, Ilia ,  VIGDER, Avi

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30575 ,  G06F17/30457

摘要： A geographically distributed storage system for managing the distribution of data elements wherein requests for given data elements incur a geographic inertia. The geographically distributed storage system comprises geographically distributed sites, each comprises a site storage unit for locally storing a portion of a globally coherent distributed database that includes the data elements and a local access point for receiving requests relating to ones of the data elements. The and geographically distributed storage system comprises a data management module for forwarding at least one requested data element to the local access point at a first of the geographically distributed sites from which the request is received and storing the at least one requested data element at the first site, thereby to provide local accessibility to the data element for future requests from the first site while maintaining the globally coherency of the distributed database.