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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2007
Peter L. Smoot, San Jose, CA (US);
Jim Holl, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sahn Lam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anawat Chankhunthod, Saratoga, CA (US);
Peter L. Smoot, San Jose, CA (US);
Jim Holl, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sahn Lam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anawat Chankhunthod, Saratoga, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and a method to make data sets conform to data management policies are presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a conformance checker and a conformance engine. The conformance checker may be operable to compare a state of a data set against a data management policy associated with the data set to determine if the data set currently conforms to the data management policy. The conformance engine may then make the data set conform to the data management policy if the conformance checker determines that the data set currently violates the data management policy.