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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Stephen J. Todd, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Scott Ostapovicz, Franklin, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments are directed to an object addressable storage (OAS) system that stores a plurality of objects, a method for use in an OAS system and at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with instruction that, when performed by a computer perform a method for use in an OAS system. Each object may include a plurality of fragments. A tiered storage environment comprising a plurality of storage tiers may be used. In response to a command, metadata associated with the fragment and a policy may be accessed. A storage tier may be selected for one or more fragments of the object based on the policy and the metadata associated with the fragment.