US 10,540,329 B2Granted

Dynamic data protection and distribution responsive to external information sources

AssigneeDataDirect Networks, Inc.

InventorsRajkumar Joshi, Dave Fellinger, Jean-Luc Chatelain

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Abstract

Systems and methods for dynamic context based data protection and distribution are described herein. In the method data replication in a multi-zone storage system automatically changes based on historical storage trends and/or external information obtained from third party information sources, such as feeds, websites, news alerts, emergency alerts, weather alerts and databases. The methods include monitoring third party information sources and evaluating a correlation between event data from the third party information sources and key words that are user provided and/or system derived. A correlation between the event data and data storage history is evaluated. A storage policy is derived based on the results of the correlation evaluation(s). The derived storage policy and corresponding key words are stored in a database. Data is stored in storage arrays according to storage policies corresponding to the key words identified in the data.

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Dependent claims

A computing device to manage a plurality of storage arrays of storage devices, the computing device comprising:

a processor;
a memory coupled with the processor;
a storage medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computing device to perform actions comprising:
providing a list of third party information sources;
receiving a selection of third party information sources;
receiving user provided key words;
monitoring third party information sources;
evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and key words;
evaluating a correlation between event data from third party information sources and data storage history;
deriving a storage policy based on the results of the correlation evaluations;
storing the key words and the derived storage policy in a database;
distributing the derived storage policy to the plurality of storage arrays,
wherein the derived storage policy specifies replication and placement of data among the storage devices and the storage arrays
storing data in the storage arrays including
inspecting the data or meta data included with the data for the key words, including scanning text strings appearing in photographs and videos included in the data for the key words
identifying the derived storage policy associated with the key words found in the data or the meta data of the data, including retrieving the derived storage policy from the database according to at least one of the key words found in the inspecting
storing the data according to the derived storage policy identified with the key words.

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A computing device to manage a plurality of storage arrays of storage devices, the computing device comprising:

a processor;
a memory coupled with the processor;
a storage medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed cause the computing device to perform actions comprising:
preloading the computing device with a list of third party information sources;
evaluating third party information sources in view of data storage history;
evaluating data storage history to derive key words;
monitoring third party information sources for occurrences of the key words;
evaluating a correlation between event data from the third party information sources and the key words;
deriving a storage policy based on the correlation evaluation;
storing the key words and the derived storage policy in a database;
distributing the derived storage policy to the plurality of storage arrays,
wherein the derived storage policy specifies replication and placement of data among the storage devices and the storage arrays
storing data in the storage arrays including
inspecting the data or meta data included with the data for the key words, including scanning text strings appearing in photographs and videos included in the data for the key words
identifying the derived storage policy associated with the key words found in the data or the meta data of the data, including retrieving the derived storage policy from the database according to at least one of the key words found in the inspecting
storing the data according to the derived storage policy identified with the key words.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.