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System and method for intelligent, globally distributed network storage

  • US 20010034795A1
  • Filed: 02/05/2001
  • Published: 10/25/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A data storage system comprising:

  • a plurality of storage nodes, each node existing at a physical location and having one or more associated contexts interface mechanisms coupled to each storage node for communicating storage access requests with the storage node; and

    data storage management processes that select one or more of the storage nodes to serve a data storage request based at least in part upon the particular contexts associated with each of the storage nodes.

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