INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT

• US 20120310995A1
• Filed: 05/04/2010
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Adrovic, Ervin, Schroth, Albrecht, Subramaniam, Kalambur, Gautam, Bhasin
• Granted Patent: US 8,983,909 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/809
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications

Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with information management are described. One example method includes controlling a computerized process to discover an information management client and one or more information management entities associated with the information management client. The example method may also include determining a data movement plan and executing the data movement plan.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

controlling a computerized process to discover an information management client and one or more information management entities associated with the information management client;

determining a data movement plan incorporating the one or more information management entities;

executing the data movement plan;

monitoring execution of the data movement plan; and

storing information related to execution of the data movement plan in a data store;

where data moved according to the data movement plan is stored by the one or more information management entities.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

controlling a computerized process to deploy an agent on the information management client;

where the agent is configured to read or write data stored by the one or more information management entities.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising:

automatically altering the data movement plan based on the stored information related to execution of the data movement plan.

4. The method of claim 3, where the data movement plan is determined based on service level objectives specified by an administrator of an information management hierarchy.

5. The method of claim 3, where the data movement plan specifies movement of data over a unified information management bus.

6. The method of claim 1, where executing the data movement plan controls the one or more information management entities to output stored data.

7. A system, comprising:

an information management client;

an information management assistant configured to discover one or more information management entities associated with the information management client;

an interaction gateway configured to provide data from one or more service level objectives to the information management assistant;

an access gateway configured to provide data about the information management client to the information management assistant; and

a data store;

where the information management assistant determines and executes a data movement plan for data stored by the one or more information management entities,

where the information management assistant monitors execution of the data movement plan, and

where information related to execution of the data movement plan is stored in the data store.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

an agent configured to read or write data stored by the one or more information management entities;

where the information management assistant deploys the agent on the information management client upon discovery of the one or more information management entities.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

a unified information management bus configured to transmit and receive data moved according to the data movement plan.

10. The system of claim 8, where the information management assistant alters the data movement plan based on the stored information related to execution of the data movement plan.

11. The system of claim 10, where the data movement plan is defined based on service level objectives specified by an administrator of an information management hierarchy.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

controlling a computerized process to discover an information management client and one or more information management entities associated with the information management client;

determining a data movement plan incorporating the one or more information management entities;

executing the data movement plan;

monitoring execution of the data movement plan; and

storing information related to execution of the data movement plan in a data store;

where data moved according to the data movement plan is stored by the one or more information management entities.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, the method comprising:

controlling a computerized process to deploy an agent on the information management client;

where the agent is configured to read or write data stored by the one or more information management entities.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, the method comprising:

automatically altering the data movement plan based on the stored information related to execution of the data movement plan.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, the method comprising:

automatically altering the data movement plan based on a failure of a portion of the data movement plan.