Emc Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Edgar J St Pierre

Madhav Mutalik

Salvatore DeSimone

Puneet B Lal

Alton Gill

Vinodh Ravindran

Frederick A Crable

John J Wallace

Peggy A McBride

Glenn E Miller

Stephen Glen Graham

Uresh K Vahalia

Thomas R Maguire

David E Frattura

Sanjay Jain

Hal J Hansen

John P Field

David C Dysert

Scott R Dunham

Rulian W Fiske

Won T Cho

Ananthan Kathiravelupillai

Victor Da Costa De Oliveira

Iain Balmer

Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for providing information lifecycle management using a federation of arrays. The method includes receiving a request to provision storage resources of a one big array according to a class of service, the one big array comprising heterogeneous storage resources, and causing the requested storage resources to be provisioned according to a provisioning policy. Execution of an information lifecycle management policy then may be initiated for management of data stored to the storage resources according to the class of service.

Method and apparatus for automated information lifecycle management using a federation of arrays

Systems and methods are provided for implementing virtual data management services. For example, a method for providing virtual data management services in a computing system comprising a cluster of server nodes, includes receiving a request for a data management service, provisioning one or more server nodes within the cluster of server nodes to execute the requested data management service, configuring one or more instances of virtual data services from a plurality of available virtual data service templates to implement the requested data management service, and executing the configured instances of virtual data services on the one or more provisioned server nodes to perform the requested data management service.

Virtual data management services

A method, system, and computer program product for providing data services, using a single control path, on a data storage resource selected from a plurality of heterogeneous storage resources, the computer-executable method comprising receiving an input relating to data services, analyzing the input to determine an appropriate type of data service to provide on the data storage resource, and based on the analyzing, providing the appropriate type of data service on the data storage resource.

Method, apparatus, and system for managing data storage with an application programming interface

A computer-executable method, system, and computer program product comprising providing a policy based scheduling model comprising modeled instances of objects representing resources, wherein the resources are provisioned within a heterogeneous storage environment, wherein the modeled instances of objects includes a transport zone for mapping a data storage resource within the heterogeneous storage environment to a data storage host, wherein each of the modeled instances of objects includes one or more ports to create I/O paths between the data storage resource and the data storage host, and using the policy based scheduling model to manage the provisioning of the data storage resource in the heterogeneous storage environment.

Automated policy based scheduling and placement of storage resources

A processing device comprises a processor coupled to a memory and implements an obligation management system for information technology infrastructure, with the obligation management system being configured to process a plurality of obligations on behalf of a relying party to verify implementation of corresponding controls in information technology infrastructure of a claimant. A given one of the obligations has an associated obligation fulfiller that is inserted or otherwise deployed as a component within the information technology infrastructure of the claimant and is configured to provide evidence of the implementation of one or more of the controls responsive to an obligation assertion so as to establish an associated trust aspect of the claimant. The information technology infrastructure may comprise distributed virtual infrastructure of a cloud service provider. The claimant may comprise the cloud service provider and the relying party may comprise a tenant of the cloud service provider.

Verification of controls in information technology infrastructure via obligation assertion

Method and apparatus for performing logical duplication of backup data in a computer system including a host computer, a storage device storing data for the host computer, and at least one computer-readable backup storage medium storing backup data copied from the storage device, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method copies only a subset of the backup data onto at least one computer-readable duplicate backup storage medium as duplicate backup data so that the duplicate backup storage medium is not an exact duplicate of the at least one backup storage medium. For example, in one embodiment, in which the backup data includes a plurality of work items, a subset of the work items are copied onto the at least one duplicate backup storage medium. Method and apparatus for restoring backup data of interest from duplicate backup storage media are also disclosed.

Method and apparatus for duplicating computer backup data

Described is a technique for a backup and restoration of data in a network that includes a multi-lingual file system and a multi-lingual network file server. Multiple meta data files are associated with a single data file in the network. Provided are services for packaging the metadata as a single parameter of an application programming interface (API) for a particular data file being backed up or restored over a network. These techniques may be used in both full and incremental backups and restores of data over a network.

Method for backup and restore of a multi-lingual network file server

Method and apparatus for backup in restoring data on a computer system are disclosed. Backups may include a differential backup. In a differential backup, only some (but not all) segments of data in a primary copy are backed up. The segments may correspond to physical segments of storage in a storage system, rather than logical level segments of storage. The method and apparatus may include constructing a complete copy of a backed up element from an earlier fill backup and a subsequent differential backup.

Method and apparatus for differential backup in a computer storage system

Method and apparatus for backing up and restoring data in a computer storage system are disclosed. Data segments are backed up before they are updated. The segments may correspond to physical segments of storage in the computer system. Restoration may proceed by determining which segments have changed since a target time, and retrieving the data backed up from that time. The backups may be stored as differential backups&mdash;saving only segments of data that are about to be changed.

Method and apparatus for backing up data before updating the data and for restoring from the backups

Method and apparatus for backing up and restoring data in a computer storage system are disclosed. Changes to segments of memory in a primary copy are tracked. The segments may correspond to how the data is physically stored. Restoration may proceed by returning only those segments that are changed in the primary copy to their state at previous point in time. The backup used for the previous point in time may be a full system backup or a differential backup. A differential backup is one that backs up some segments of memory, but not all of the segments of memory in an element being backed up.

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Venice, FL, United States of America

Edgar J St Pierre