DYNAMIC DATA PROTECTION AND DISTRIBUTION RESPONSIVE TO EXTERNAL INFORMATION SOURCES

• US 20160314118A1
• Filed: 04/23/2015
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DataDirect Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: DataDirect Networks Incorporated
• Inventors: Joshi, Rajkumar, Fellinger, David, Chatelain, Jean-Luc
• Granted Patent: US 10,540,329 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems

Abstract

Systems and methods for dynamic context based data protection and distribution in which data replication in a multi-zone storage system automatically changes based on historical storage trends and/or external information obtained from third party information sources is described herein. The methods include monitoring third party information sources and evaluating a correlation between event data from the third party information sources and key words that are user provided and/or system derived. A correlation between the event data and data storage history may be evaluated. A storage policy is derived based on the results of the correlation evaluation(s). The derived storage policy and corresponding key words are stored in a database.

Claims

1. A computing device to manage a plurality of storage arrays of storage devices, the computing device comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled with the processor;

a storage medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computing device to perform actions comprising;

providing a list of third party information sources;

receiving a selection of third party information sources;

receiving user provided key words;

monitoring third party information sources;

evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and key words;

evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and data storage history;

deriving a storage policy based on the results of the correlation evaluations;

storing the key words and the derived storage policy in a database.

2. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the deriving includes consideration and application of weights to the third party information sources such that some third party information sources impact the deriving more than other third party information sources.

3. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the third party information sources include at least one selected from the group including weather sources, emergency services feeds, early warning systems for environmental emergencies, media feeds and websites, entertainment feeds and websites, sports feeds and websites, and military information and feeds.

4. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the event data includes information from feeds, websites, databases, emergency alerts, weather alerts, news alerts at and/or from third party information sources.

5. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the data storage history includes at least three selected from the group including kind information, time and date information, author information, source information, destination information, geographic information.

6. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the database is a key-value store.

7. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the storage medium has further instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computing device to perform further actions including evaluating the data storage history to derive additional key words, and wherein evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and key words includes evaluating both user provided key words and the additional key words.

8. The computing device of claim 1 wherein evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and key words includes applying weights to the third party information sources, the weights based on at least one selected from the group including reliability, pertinence and relevance of the third party information sources.

9. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the storage medium is one selected from the group including hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-states drives (SSDs), silicon storage devices, magnetic tape, optical discs, nonvolatile RAM, carbon nanotube memory, and ReRam memristors.

10. A computing device to manage a plurality of storage arrays of storage devices, the computing device comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled with the processor;

a storage medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computing device to perform actions comprising;

preloading the computing device with a list of third party information sources;

evaluating third party information sources in view of data storage history;

evaluating data storage history to derive key words;

monitoring third party information sources for occurrences of the key words;

evaluating a correlation between event data from the third party information sources and the key words;

deriving a storage policy based on the correlation evaluation;

storing the key words and the derived storage policy in a database.

11. The computing device of claim 10 wherein the deriving includes consideration and application of weights to the third party information sources such that some third party information sources impact the deriving more than other third party information sources.

12. The computing device of claim 10 wherein the third party information sources include at least one selected from the group including weather sources, emergency services feeds, early warning systems for environmental emergencies, media feeds and websites, entertainment feeds and websites, sports feeds and websites, and military information and feeds.

13. The computing device of claim 10 wherein the event data includes information from feeds, websites, databases, emergency alerts, weather alerts, news alerts at and/or from third party information sources.

14. The computing device of claim 10 wherein the data storage history includes at least three selected from the group including kind information, time and date information, author information, source information, destination information, geographic information.

15. The computing device of claim 10 wherein the database is a key-value store.

16. The computing device of claim 10 wherein evaluating a correlation includes applying weights to the third party information sources, the weights based on at least one selected from the group including reliability, pertinence and relevance of the third party information sources.

17. The computing device of claim 10 wherein the storage medium has further instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computing device to perform further actions including evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and data storage history, and wherein the deriving is based on the evaluating third party information sources in view of data storage history and the evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and data storage history.

18. The computing device of claim 10 wherein the storage medium has further instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computing device to perform further actions including receiving user provided key words, and wherein evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and key words includes evaluating user provided key words and derived key words.

19. The computing device of claim 10 wherein the storage medium is one selected from the group including hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-states drives (SSDs), silicon storage devices, magnetic tape, optical discs, nonvolatile RAM, carbon nanotube memory, and ReRam memristors.