DATA RETENTION COMPONENT AND FRAMEWORK

• US 20140207741A1
• Filed: 03/19/2014
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Morsi, Magdi, Sun, Ying, Au, Wai-Ho, Katariya, Sanjeev, Sovine, Scott
• Application Number:
  US14/219,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20140207741A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/689
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185

Abstract

Systems and methods for dynamically managed data retention are described. The system comprises a tiered framework having a plurality of namespaces. The namespaces are configured by a user to have selected data retention attributes. Data including a manifest may be received by the system, processed, and directed to a namespace based upon the manifest. Data storage partitions may be created automatically in association with a namespace, and the data partitions may be assigned partition attributes. Data in a storage partition may be migrated automatically to another namespace based on the partition attributes. Code necessary for creating storage partitions and migrating data is generated by the data management system.

Claims

1. A method performed on at least one computing device, the method comprising:

receiving a manifest that is associated with particular data, the received manifest identifying data retention attributes for the associated particular data;

determining, based on the received manifest, a storage partition that possess at least one of the data retention attributes identified by the received manifest; and

storing the associated particular data in the determined storage partition in accordance with the data retention attributes identified by the received manifest.

2. The method of claim 1 where the determining comprises creating, based on the received manifest, the determined storage partition.

3. The method of claim 1 where the data retention attribute comprise a point in time at which the associated particular data stored in the determined storage partition expires.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising migrating the associated particular data stored in the determined storage partition to another storage partition.

5. The method of claim 4 where the migrating comprises transforming the migrated data.

6. The method of claim 4 where the determined storage partition is in a first namespace, and where the another storage partition is in a second namespace.

7. The method of claim 4 where a media type of the another storage partition is different than a media type of the determined storage partition.

9. The system of claim 1 where the determining comprises creating, based on the received manifest, the determined storage partition.

10. The system of claim 1 where the data retention attribute comprise a point in time at which the associated particular data stored in the determined storage partition expires.

11. The system of claim 1 further comprising migrating the associated particular data stored in the determined storage partition to another storage partition.

12. The system of claim 11 where the migrating comprises transforming the migrated data.

13. The system of claim 11 where the determined storage partition is in a first namespace, and where the another storage partition is in a second namespace.

14. The system of claim 11 where a media type of the another storage partition is different than a media type of the determined storage partition.

8. A system comprising at least one computing device and at least one software module that are together configured for performing actions comprising:

receiving a manifest that is associated with particular data, the received manifest identifying data retention attributes for the associated particular data;

determining, based on the received manifest, a storage partition that possess at least one of the data retention attributes identified by the received manifest; and

storing the associated particular data in the determined storage partition in accordance with the data retention attributes identified by the received manifest.

15. At least one computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform actions comprising:

receiving a manifest that is associated with particular data, the received manifest identifying data retention attributes for the associated particular data;

determining, based on the received manifest, a storage partition that possess at least one of the data retention attributes identified by the received manifest; and

storing the associated particular data in the determined storage partition in accordance with the data retention attributes identified by the received manifest.

16. The at least one computer-readable storage device of claim 15 where the determining comprises creating, based on the received manifest, the determined storage partition.

17. The at least one computer-readable storage device of claim 15 where the data retention attribute comprise a point in time at which the associated particular data stored in the determined storage partition expires.

18. The at least one computer-readable storage device of claim 15 further comprising migrating the associated particular data stored in the determined storage partition to another storage partition.

19. The at least one computer-readable storage device of claim 18 where the determined storage partition is in a first namespace, and where the another storage partition is in a second namespace.

20. The at least one computer-readable storage device of claim 18 where a media type of the another storage partition is different than a media type of the determined storage partition.