Box Limited

Mark Storer

Kirill Minkovich

Advait Kumar Mishra

Xiaodong Wang

Susmitha Kanakamedala

Girish Thattil

Randall Roy Schulz

Vova Galchenko

Luis Miguel Hernanz Iglesias

Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for reducing the capacity used to provide High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) in a distributed computing environment. According to one embodiment, dynamic recovery of a cloud-based resource can comprise setting a current latency value to an initial latency value and handling received requests with the current latency value. Current resource utilization can be detected while requests are being processed and a determination can be made as to whether the detected current resource utilization exceeds a predetermined threshold amount of resource utilization. In response to determining the detected current resource utilization does not exceed the threshold, the current latency amount can be maintained at the initial latency value. In response to determining the detected current resource utilization exceeds the threshold, the current latency value can be adjusted and injected into handling of received client requests.

Methods and systems for dynamic recovery with adaptive latency injection

Embodiments are directed to association of storage objects in a multi-tenant, cloud-based storage environment. More specifically, a first object can be made available in the file system of the environment and can be accessed, for example, by its file or object name. At some point thereafter, an auxiliary object can be provided that is related to the first object. For example, this auxiliary object can comprise metadata or other content associated with or related to the first object. According to one embodiment, this auxiliary object can be assigned an identifier that not only uniquely identifies the auxiliary object but also identifies, within the identifier itself, the relationship to the first object. This relational naming can be used to track the relationship between objects, e.g., to update the auxiliary object based on changes to the first object, but without a separate mapping of the objects.

Methods and systems for storing and associating objects in a storage system

Systems and methods for managing content in a cloud-based service platform. A method embodiment operates over storage content objects stored in storage devices in a cloud-based shared content management system. The method commences upon identifying a source object and identifying derivative objects that are generated based properties of the source object. After a time, candidate eviction objects are identified. One form of analysis is performed over source objects and another form of analysis is performed over derivative objects. Derivative objects are classified using the analysis, which classification is used to determine object management commands associated with the derivative object such as to remove the derivative object from one storage location (e.g., in a high-performance storage filer) and relocate it to another (e.g., lower cost) storage location. Based on the analysis, a derivative object might be deleted completely and then regenerated at a later time if/when needed.

Management of cloud-based shared content using predictive cost modeling

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