Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Puneet B Lal

Edgar J St Pierre

David C Dysert

Salvatore DeSimone

Ananthan K Pillai

Christopher J Hackett

Peter A Bouchard

Hamid R Farshi

Madhav Mutalik

Anoop George Ninan

Uresh K Vahalia

Aharon Blitzer

Aviram Katz

Vinodh Ravindran

Hal J Hansen

Sanjay Jain

Anil A Degwekar

Frederick A Crable

Roy Dahan

Scott R Dunham

Cara P Garber

Rulian W Fiske

Santhosh Lakshmanan

Won T Cho

Parashuram Hallur

Vasantha Gopal

Madhup Mishra

Ananthan Kathiravelupillai

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

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

Currently, administrators configure replication manually according to a data protection policy. Typically, such data protection policies are provided via a script or a similar input to provision storage devices. However, such manual configuration is subject to administrator error. For example, an administrator may not provision storage devices accurately according to a desired data protection policy. Further, this process is subject not only to human mistake, but also the administrative overhead required to manually provision the storage devices. Example embodiments of the present invention eliminate administration and reliability issues arising out of manual replication service configuration, thereby minimizing administrative costs and improving the user experience of handling data protection. Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus and a computer-program product for creating a policy-based replication service. The method includes receiving a policy and creating a replication service according to the policy.

Method and apparatus for policy-based replication

In one aspect, a method includes reading a configuration file to obtain settings of device drivers for a cloud computing storage array, enumerating a backend driver as the cloud computing storage array in a data storage system, instantiating a default port for the cloud computing storage array and accessing the cloud computing storage array using the data storage system.

Enabling heterogeneous storage management using storage from cloud computing platform

IT organizations are challenged with maintaining data application and availability while satisfying service level agreements and compliance requirements. Unprecedented data growth is straining IT resources requiring greater investments, while capital and operational expenses are under scrutiny. Given this tension, IT organizations are seeking efficiency and optimization to regain control and meet business SLAs. Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for performing automated data protection with information technology (IT) infrastructure visibility. The method comprises receiving input regarding a desired state of a data protection environment for an IT infrastructure and creating a data protection environment according to the desired state of the data protection environment.

Method and apparatus for automated data protection with IT infrastructure visibility

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

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