MANAGING STORAGE OF DATA ACROSS DISPARATE REPOSITORIES

• US 20130290334A1
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rahul Kapoor
• Inventors: KAPOOR, Rahul
• Application Number:
  US13/460,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290334A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/11 File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots file system backup G06F11/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/061 Improving I/O performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0644 Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

In a method for managing storage of data across a plurality of disparate repositories, a partitioning strategy for storing the data into a plurality of partitions in at least one of a plurality of disparate repositories is acquired based upon a characteristic of the data. In addition, global metadata that, describes the partitioning strategy is acquired and the global metadata is implemented in a plurality of disparate repositories to enable performance of the partitioning strategy in storing the data in the plurality of partitions across the plurality of disparate repositories in a location agnostic manner.

Claims

1. A method for managing storage of data across a plurality of disparate repositories, said method comprising:

acquiring a partitioning strategy for storing the data into a plurality of partitions in at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories based upon a characteristic of the data;

acquiring global metadata that describes the partitioning strategy; and

implementing, by a processor, the global metadata in at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories to, enable performance of the partitioning strategy in storing the data in the plurality of partitions across the plurality of disparate repositories in a location agnostic manner.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein implementing the global metadata further comprises implementing the global metadata to establish the plurality of partitions in at least one of the disparate repositories, wherein each of the plurality of partitions corresponds to a logical separation of the data based upon the characteristic of the data, wherein the characteristic of the data comprises an owner of the data, and wherein implementing the global metadata further comprises implementing the global metadata to establish the plurality of partitions in at lest one of the disparate repositories to store data owned by respective groups of users.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of disparate partitions are logically partitioned with respect to each other according to a manner in which the groups of users are organized in an organization.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of disparate repositories comprise at least two of an on-premise repository, a hosted repository, and a geographically remote repository.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein a first repository of the plurality of disparate repositories comprises an on-premise repository and wherein a second repository of the plurality of disparate repositories comprises a hosted repository, wherein the partitioning strategy further comprises assigning the plurality of partitions to respective groups of users, and wherein the global metadata describes the partitioning strategy as assigning a first group of users to the first repository and assigning a second group of users to the second repository.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein data owned by the first group of users has a greater relative importance than data owned by the second group of users.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the partitioning strategy further comprises storing multiple copies of the same data in multiple partitions on at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the characteristic of the data comprises at least one of an owner of the data, a type of the data, an identifier of the owner of the data, and a group identifier of the data.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein implementing the global metadata further comprises:

accessing data to be stored;

identifying a characteristic of the data to be stored;

determining which partition of the plurality of partitions the data is to be stored based upon the identified characteristic of the data and the global metadata; and

storing the data into the determined partition.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

providing a console through which administration of the data stored in at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories is facilitated;

receiving an instruction pertaining to administration of the data stored in the at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories through the console; and

performing an action corresponding to the received instruction.

11. An apparatus for managing storage of data across a plurality of disparate repositories, said apparatus comprising:

at least one module to,

acquire a partitioning strategy for storing the data into a plurality of partitions based upon a characteristic of the data, wherein the plurality of partitions are established across the plurality of disparate repositories;

acquire global metadata that describes the partitioning strategy; and

implement the global metadata in the plurality of disparate repositories to perform the partitioning strategy in storing the data in the plurality of partitions across the plurality of disparate repositories; and

a processor to implement the at least one module.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein each of the plurality of partitions corresponds to a logical separation of the data based upon the characteristic of the data, and wherein the plurality of disparate repositories comprise at least two of an on-premise repository, a hosted repository, and a geographically remote repository.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the at least one module is further to:

access data to be stored;

identify a characteristic of the data;

determine which partition of the plurality of partitions the data is to be stored based upon the identified characteristic of the data and information contained in the global metadata; and

store the data into the determined partition.

14. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the at least one module is further to:

provide a console through which administration of the data stored in at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories is facilitated;

receive an instruction pertaining to administration of the data stored in the plurality of disparate repositories through the console; and

perform an action corresponding to the received instruction.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium on which is stored machine readable instructions that when executed by a processor, implement a method for managing storage of data across a plurality of disparate repositories, said machine readable instructions comprising code to:

acquire a partitioning strategy for storing the data into a plurality of partitions in at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories based upon a characteristic of the data, wherein the plurality of partitions are established on the plurality of disparate repositories;

acquire global metadata that describes the partitioning strategy; and

implement the global metadata in the plurality of disparate repositories to perform the partitioning strategy in storing the data in the plurality of partitions across the plurality of disparate repositories.