British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Nektarios Georgalas

Michael A Fisher

Clare Bradford

This invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for providing an interface between a client and one or more data storage systems. Existing approaches to the management of multiple, distributed heterogeneous data storage systems are deficient in that they are inflexible to change. To alleviate these deficiencies there is provided a method of providing an interface between a client () and one or more data storage systems (). The method comprises the steps of receiving a request from a client (), searching, in a rule store populated by modifiable human-readable rules each specifying a handler for use in responding to client requests, for a human readable rule and providing the interface by activating the handler specified in the human readable rule to communicate with the data storage systems.

User interface to a data storage system and rule store

A method of and tool for resource creation in a distributed computing environment uses a variety of resources which may be located at locations distributed throughout the environment. New resources may be created in this distributed environment. One example of a new resource that may be created is a resource that integrates previously available but heterogeneous resources as to provide new functionality. A method of resource creation is provided using a system including a plurality of sets of one or more resources, each set of resources being associated with a respective representation, the method including receiving the respective representation of each set of resources; transforming the respective representation of each set of resources into a common representation; populating a store with the common representation of each set of resources; permitting the association of component ones of the resources in their common representation to define a new resource; and creating the new resource from the correspondingly associated respective representations of the component resources.

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Ipswich, United Kingdom

Nektarios Georgalas