US 2016/0241995 A1Published application

Geo-Fencing Aware Compute Infrastructure

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSasikanth Eda, Dean Hildebrand, Varun Mittal, William W. Owen, Sandeep R. Patil

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Abstract

A mechanism is provided for enabling separation of compute infrastructure built within a geographically located storage device. A determination is made as to whether a compute request originates from a geographical location that is the same as a geographical location of the geographically located storage device. Responsive to the compute request originating from a geographical location different from the geographical location of the geographically located storage device, a determination is made as to whether the compute request complies with governing requirements that govern the geographically located storage device. Responsive to the compute request complying with the requirements that govern the geographically located storage device, a determination is made as to whether the compute request is for data retrieval only. Responsive to the compute request being for data retrieval only, the requested data is gathered from data storage of the geographically located storage device and sent to a requesting client.

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Dependent claims

A method, in a data processing system, for enabling separation of compute infrastructure built within a geographically located storage device, the method comprising:

determining, by a geo-fencing policy implementation module in a geo-fencing aware compute mechanism executed by a processor of the geographically located storage device, whether a compute request originates from a geographical location that is the same as a geographical location of the geographically located storage device;
responsive to the compute request originating from a geographical location different from the geographical location of the geographically located storage device, determining, by the geo-fencing policy implementation module, whether the compute request complies with governing requirements that govern the geographically located storage device;
responsive to the compute request complying with the requirements that govern the geographically located storage device, determining, by the geo-fencing policy implementation module, whether the compute request is for data retrieval only;
responsive to the compute request being for data retrieval only, gathering, by a data retrieval/response module in the geo-fencing aware compute mechanism, the requested data from a data storage of the geographically located storage device;
and
sending, by the data retrieval/response module, the retrieved data to a requesting client.

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A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

determine whether a compute request originates from a geographical location that is the same as a geographical location of a geographically located storage device;
responsive to the compute request originating from a geographical location different from the geographical location of the geographically located storage device, determine whether the compute request complies with governing requirements that govern the geographically located storage device;
responsive to the compute request complying with the requirements that govern the geographically located storage device, determine whether the compute request is for data retrieval only;
responsive to the compute request being for data retrieval only, gather the requested data from a data storage of the geographically located storage device;
and
send the retrieved data to a requesting client.

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An apparatus comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
determine whether a compute request originates from a geographical location that is the same as a geographical location of a geographically located storage device;
responsive to the compute request originating from a geographical location different from the geographical location of the geographically located storage device, determine whether the compute request complies with governing requirements that govern the geographically located storage device;
responsive to the compute request complying with the requirements that govern the geographically located storage device, determine whether the compute request is for data retrieval only;
responsive to the compute request being for data retrieval only, gather the requested data from a data storage of the geographically located storage device;
and
send the retrieved data to a requesting client.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.