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Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:

Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Philip Derbeko, Modiin, IL;

Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);

Alex Veprinsky, Brookline, MA (US);

Marik Marshak, Newton, MA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2013.01); G06F 12/0615 (2013.01); G06F 12/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a read request for a piece of content stored within a storage system. If it is determined that the piece of content is not present within a front end cache system of the storage system, requesting the piece of content from a multi-tiered data array, thus defining requested content. The requested content is received from the multi-tiered data array. A tier designator, concerning the requested content, is received that identifies a specific data tier within the multi-tiered data array from which the requested content was obtained.


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