Emc Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Arun Dugganapally

Manoj Nair

Iva Blazina Vukelja

Stephen R Perrin

Mark Weng Soon Wah

Alex Rankov

John Philip Bell, Ii

Stanley Luke

Discovering environment objects for information management in a networked environment. Information management provides services such as data protection, backup, retention, compliance, etc., by classifying the objects and/or infrastructure of an entity according to its value to the entity. Information management begins by discovering the data in a network and by discovering the servers and services operating in a network. The servers and services are discovered using adapters that can collect information regarding the environment objects. Objects can be discovered using cascaded discovery, where the information collected by one adapter is used to drive the collection of additional information by other adapters. This information can then by used by information management systems to assign or orchestrate various services.

Cascaded discovery of information environment

A method and system for classifying environment components within a computer system. The computer system includes an information management service for defining services to be provided to data objects residing in the computer system. One exemplary method identifies environment components, such as servers, storage locations, databases, applications, and the like, within the computer system. The service level capabilities of each of the environment components are then identified. The environment components are then classified in accordance with their identified service level capabilities. By categorizing the environment components in accordance with their service level capabilities, the service level objective requests of data objects residing in the system can efficiently be matched to the environment components that are capable of providing the requested services.

Environment classification

Servicing an access request using a plurality of replicas of data includes determining which of the replicas are available and selecting one of the replicas for servicing the access request based on which of the replicas are available. At least one other replica is indicated as not available in response to receiving a monitoring message indicating that the at least one other replica is subject to degraded performance. The monitoring messages are independent of the access request. The monitoring messages may be SNMP messages. Servicing an access request using a plurality of replicas of data may also include determining if each of the SNMP messages affects the availability of the replicas. The replicas may be selected in round robin fashion or randomly.

Automated load balancing

Discovering environment objects for information management in a networked environment. Information management provides services such as data protection, backup, retention, compliance, etc., by classifying the objects and/or infrastructure of an entity according to its value to the entity. Information management begins by discovering the data in a network and by discovering the servers and services operating in a network. The servers and services are discovered using adapters that can collect information regarding the environment objects. This information can then by used by information management systems to assign or orchestrate various services.

Environment classification and service analysis

Providing information management in a networked environment. Information management provides services such as data protection, backup, retention, compliance, etc., by classifying the objects and/or infrastructure of an entity according to its value to the entity. Information management begins by discovering the data in a network and by discovering the servers and services operating in a network. Next, the data is classified according to rules that can be set by the entity, by the line of business within the entity, by regulation, and the like. Often, classification includes the collection and/or generation of metadata. After the data is classified, service level objectives can be identified and mapped to service levels. After service levels are selected, the corresponding actions can be orchestrated such that the objects of the entity received the selected services in the service level.

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