DATA RELOCATION IN GLOBAL STORAGE CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20130144978A1
• Filed: 12/02/2011
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: JAIN, Bhushan P., PATIL, Sandeep R., RAMANATHAN, Sri, TREVATHAN, Matthew B., TULSHIGIRI, Ujwala P.
• Granted Patent: US 9,916,184 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/502 Proximity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Methods and systems for data relocation in global storage cloud environments are provided. A method includes locating a data server near a travel location of a user based on one or more travel plans of the user. The method further includes transferring data of the user from a home data server near a home location of the user to the data server near the travel location.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

locating a data server near a travel location of a user based on one or more travel plans of the user; and

transferring data of the user from a home data server near a home location of the user to the data server near the travel location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data server is a nearest data server to the travel location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the travel location is one of a final travel location and an intermediate travel location, of the user during travel.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the one or more travel plans from at least one of a user calendar and one or more travel planner tools.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the user sets the one or more travel plans in at least one of the user calendar and the one or more travel planner tools.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transferring of the data further comprises at least one of migrating and replicating the user data from the home data server to the data server near the travel location.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the transferring of the user data is performed one of before and after the user travels to the travel location.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving one or more user-defined policies of the user data from a policy database, each of the one or more user-defined policies indicating a relevance of the user data for use at the travel location; and

selectively transferring the user data from the home data server to the data server near the travel location based on the one or more user-defined policies.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein each of the user-defined policies comprises at least one of:

an owner of a file of the user data;

a class of the file;

one or more travel locations where the file may be relevant for use;

one or more blacklist locations where the file cannot be transferred;

a transfer time of the file; and

an indication of whether the file is to be at least one of migrated and replicated from the home data server to the data server near the travel location.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising fetching at least one file from the user data stored in the home data server when the file is required by the user for use at the travel location but is unavailable in the transferred user data.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising transferring the user data from the data server near the travel location back to the home data server after the user accesses the user data.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein a service provider at least one of creates, maintains, deploys and supports a computer infrastructure which performs the steps of claim 1.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein steps of claim 1 are provided by a service provider on a subscription, advertising, and/or fee basis.

14. A system implemented in hardware, comprising:

a computer infrastructure operable to;

determine one or more user-defined policies of data of a user, each of the one or more user-defined policies indicating a relevance of the user data for use at a travel location of the user; and

selectively transfer the user data from a home data server near a home location of the user to a data server near the travel location based on the one or more user-defined policies.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the determining of the one or more user-defined policies comprises receiving the one or more user-defined policies from a policy database.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein each of the user-defined policies comprises at least one of:

an owner of a file of the user data;

a class of the file;

one or more travel locations where the file may be relevant for use;

one or more blacklist locations where the file cannot be transferred;

a transfer time of the file; and

an indication of whether the file is to be at least one of migrated and replicated from the home data server to the data server near the travel location.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the selectively transferring of the data further comprises at least one of migrating and replicating the user data from the home data server to the data server near the travel location.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the computer infrastructure is further operable to:

receive one or more travel plans of the user from at least one of a user calendar and one or more travel planner tools; and

locate the data server near the travel location based on the one or more travel plans.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein:

the data server is a nearest data server to the travel location; and

the travel location is one of a final travel location and an intermediate travel location, of the user during travel.

20. A computer program product comprising a tangible computer usable storage medium having readable program code embodied in the tangible computer usable storage medium, the computer program product includes at least one component operable to:

determine one or more user-defined policies of data of a user, each of the one or more user-defined policies indicating a relevance of the user data for use at a travel location of the user; and

locate a data server near the travel location based on one or more travel plans of the user; and

selectively transfer the user data from a home data server near a home location of the user to the data server near the travel location based on the one or more user-defined policies.

21. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein the at least one component is further operable to receive the one or more travel plans from at least one of a user calendar and one or more travel planner tools.

22. A method of data relocation in global storage cloud environments, comprising:

providing a computer infrastructure, being operable to;

receive one or more travel plans of a user from at least one of a user calendar and one or more travel planner tools;

locate a data server near an intermediate travel location of the user based on the one or more travel plans; and

transfer data of the user from a home data server near a home location of the user to the data server near the intermediate travel location.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the data server is a nearest data server to the intermediate travel location.

24. A computer system for data relocation in global storage cloud environments, the system comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage media;

first program instructions to receive one or more travel plans of a user from at least one of a user calendar and one or more travel planner tools;

second program instructions to receive one or more user-defined policies of data of the user from a policy database, each of the user-defined policies indicating a relevance of the user data for use at a travel location of the user;

third program instructions to locate a data server near the travel location based on the one or more travel plans; and

fourth program instructions to selectively transfer the user data from a home data server near a home location of the user to a data server near the travel location based on the one or more user-defined policies,

wherein the first, second, third, and fourth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.

25. The computer system of claim 24, wherein:

the data server is a nearest data server to the travel location; and

the selectively transferring of the data further comprises at least one of migrating and replicating the user data from the home data server to the data server near the travel location.