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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Philip Derbeko, Modiin, IL;
Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);
Alex Veprinsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Marik Marshak, Newton, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
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.