METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT

• US 20070299879A1
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Paul Snyder, Quyen Dao, William Reeves
• Inventors: Snyder, Paul, Reeves, William, Dao, Quyen
• Granted Patent: US 8,332,364 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures

Abstract

A system, method and program product for assigning management classes to data objects. The disclosed system includes a class assignment system for assigning a management class to an inputted data object, wherein the class assignment system analyzes historical usage characteristics of existing data objects that have attributes similar to the inputted data object; and a data analysis system that analyzes existing data objects to generate a knowledge base of historical usage characteristics. The historical usage characteristics are updated as existing objects make their way through the storage lifecycle.

Claims

1. A method for assigning management classes, comprising:

analyzing existing data objects in a storage system to determine historical usage characteristics;

inputting a new data object having at least one attribute;

assigning the new data object to a management class by analyzing historical usage characteristics of similarly attributed existing data objects; and

storing the management class with the new data object on a storage device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the historical usage characteristics are stored in a knowledge base.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the assigning step includes the step of selecting a management class from a set of management classes.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the assigned management class dictates a storage scheme for the data object.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the assigning step includes the step of searching the knowledge base of historical usage characteristics.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising the further step of storing the new data object in the storage system with an assigned management class.