公开(公告)号：US07693877B1

公开(公告)日：2010-04-06

申请号：US11726816

申请日：2007-03-23

Applicant: Gary Ivor Zasman

Inventor： Gary Ivor Zasman

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06F17/00

CPC classification number: G06F17/30221 ,  G06F3/0604 ,  G06F3/0649 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F3/0685 ,  H04L67/1097

Abstract: An automated information lifecycle management (ILM) system for network storage automatically searches a network storage system to identify data items stored therein. The network storage system includes multiple data storage facilities of different types coupled to a network. The ILM system automatically classifies each of the data items into a category of multiple data categories, and automatically optimizes each of the data items to a particular data storage facility of the multiple data storage facilities, according to the category into which the data item was classified. The ILM system may also automatically discover and detect storage devices added to the network and assign them to the proper storage class, for storing data of the corresponding category. The ILM system further may automatically determine or predict when additional storage capacity is needed for any particular class of storage and may alert a user accordingly and/or free up additional storage capacity.

Abstract translation: 用于网络存储的自动信息生命周期管理（ILM）系统自动搜索网络存储系统以识别存储在其中的数据项。 网络存储系统包括耦合到网络的不同类型的多个数据存储设施。 ILM系统将每个数据项自动分类为多个数据类别的类别，并且根据数据项分类到的类别，将每个数据项自动优化到多个数据存储设施的特定数据存储设施 。 ILM系统还可以自动发现和检测添加到网络中的存储设备并将其分配给适当的存储类，以存储相应类别的数据。 ILM系统还可以自动确定或预测何时需要任何特定类别的存储的附加存储容量，并且可以相应地提醒用户和/或释放额外的存储容量。