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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2005
Jeff G. Bone, Austin, TX (US);
Laura Arbilla, Austin, TX (US);
Keith Zoellner, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley Might, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeremy Kaplan, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Morry Belkin, Austin, TX (US);
Peter Lee, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Jeff G. Bone, Austin, TX (US);
Laura Arbilla, Austin, TX (US);
Keith Zoellner, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley Might, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeremy Kaplan, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Morry Belkin, Austin, TX (US);
Peter Lee, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Stored IQ, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems, methods and apparatuses for managing objects in an enterprise environment according to policies. According to the invention, each policy rule ties a condition that conceptually lives in a repository to an appropriate action(s). Since each condition can be expressed in terms of metadata, policies can be applied and enforced over managed objects (files and directories) by allowing users to program appropriate corresponding action(s) via manipulating metadata stored in a metadata repository, e.g., a policy could prohibit storing MP3 files in corporate storage. In one embodiment, a user can specify a policy rule that ties the condition 'no MP3 files in volumes A-Z' to an action 'delete MP3 files from volumes A-Z' via a Web-based user interface. A harvester is disclosed for harvesting metadata across file systems.