Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Actifio, Inc.

Ashutosh Ashutosh

Madhav Mutalik

David Fu-Tien Chang

David F Chang

Systems and methods are disclosed for a system for managing data in accordance with service level agreements (SLAs) that specify schedules on a calendar basis for performing prescribed data management functions and for reducing inter-function redundancy. This system may include a data management engine for performing data management functions, including at least a snapshot function, and at least one back-up function. The data management engine may include a service level policy engine that receives SLAs in electronic form and which controls the scheduling of the data management functions. Each electronic SLA may be associated with a corresponding application and may specify at least one service level policy, each policy specifying a source pool, a destination pool, a copy frequency, a retention period and schedule information. A collection of policies is capable of expressing a non-uniform schedule for when a given function should be performed.

System and method for managing data with service level agreements that may specify non-uniform copying of data

Systems and methods are disclosed for performing a plurality of prescribed data management functions in a manner that reduces redundant access operations to primary storage, where the system includes a data management engine for performing data management functions, including at least a snapshot function and a back-up function. An electronic service level agreement (SLA) specifies a schedule for performing data management functions, where point-in-time images of data include a reference to a baseline image and difference data indicating changes at a later, specific point in time. The data management system also creates a point-in-time image of the primary storage data in response to a schedule requiring some data management functions to be performed concurrently, and communicates the difference information to secondary storage to update the back-up copy of the primary data, such that the primary storage is accessed only once for all updates to the secondary storage.

System and method for performing a plurality of prescribed data management functions in a manner that reduces redundant access operations to primary storage

A method for analyzing management risk of a computer network includes selecting a portion of a storage system, determining a first downtime cost associated with a component included in the portion of the storage system, assigning the first downtime cost to the component, and disseminating the assigning of the downtime cost to a user.

Software application domain and storage domain risk analysis process and method

A method for constraining access to a storage system includes assigning a permanent bus identification to a storage device included in the storage system, creating a zone including a switch and the storage device included in the storage system such that data only passes to the storage device from the switch, and restricting access to the storage device from a server included in the storage system.

Software application domain and storage domain constraining process and method

A method for characterizing a data path in a computer system includes collecting data from a software application, the data represents a data path between the software application and a storage system, collecting data from the storage system, the data represents the data path between the software application and the storage system, selecting the data path between the software application and the storage system, and determining a characterization measure of the selected data path.

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Ashutosh Ashutosh