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Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2007
Applicants:

Manoj Nair, Cary, NC (US);

Stephen R. Perrin, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Inventors:

Manoj Nair, Cary, NC (US);

Stephen R. Perrin, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Environment and/or file discovery operations are delegated by an information management service in a network to external computing resources. The external computing resource performs discovery operations to discover objects in the network, which may include discovering every object in the network, or discovering only new, changed, and/or deleted objects in the network. Discovery information identifying the discovered objects is reported back to the information management service. The information management service uses the discovery information to perform information management, including classification of discovered objects into categories, mapping categories to service level objectives that include one or more services, and orchestrating execution of the one or more services. Optionally, the information management service can delegate classification, service level management, and/or orchestration of services to one or more additional external computing resources.


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