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Storage organization of data according to business objectives is provided to manage data storage consumption among data storage consumers. Data is not managed at the file level, but organized, coordinated and enforced at a global level based on business logic. The business objectives typically include customer information, priority information, marketing information, manufacturing information, recorded contract and documentary information or information regarding the revenue generation or potential of data. The logical representation enforces data storage consumers to work according to the definitions in the logical representation. The data storage consumers will have the opportunity to define storage parameters for each of the data defined in the logical representation. The placement and determination of where the data should be stored is accomplished according to these defined storage parameters. Data organization based on business logic provides a higher degree of intelligence to the organization of data storage compared to prior art solutions. |
| U.S. Patent No. 7,762,854 |
"Data Storage Management Driven By Business Objectives" |
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The Patent continuation introduces new methods for the following: |
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- A new method for further enforcing naming conventions of both directories and file names to unrestricted, restricted, determined from a list, or semi-restricted.
- A new method for further enforcing naming conventions of both directories and file names through a save interface or save as interface.
- A new method to assign timing, routing, scheduling, or work flow attributes to directories.
- A new method to incorporate business specific calculators to determine said data size values upon data placement and movement decisions.
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