International Business Machines Corporation

Longsand Limited

Lawrence Stabile

Sunil Sarin

Krishnan Seetharaman

Prasad G Parulekar

Venkat K Chandra

David L Shepard

David Joshua Asher

Joseph S Ficara

Mark A Kaufman

Michael Robert Boucher

Jacob T LeBlanc

Jeffrey L West

The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for replication control using eventually consistent meta-data. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for replication control using eventually consistent meta-data is provided. The method includes replicating data in a replication data processing system of nodes coupled to one another over a computer communications network. The method also includes replicating meta-data representing the state of the replication data processing system into a data structure of eventually consistent meta-data. Finally, the method includes managing the replication of the data according to the replicated meta-data.

Replication control using eventually consistent meta-data

A classifier classifies data to identify a class of the data. Based on the identified class, at least one action to apply to the given data item is determined according to the data management policy, where the data management policy specifies a plurality of actions to apply for different classes of data items.

Applying an action on a data item according to a classification and a data management policy

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