Patent ID: 11888836
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for managing data, comprising:
receiving, by a first cluster, a data replication request that specifies to copy data to a second cluster and at least one condition;
performing a lookup in a network metric data structure to identify one or more network paths between the first cluster and the second cluster;
determining that a path with the lowest latency includes an intermediate cluster between the first cluster and second cluster;
determining that storing the data on the intermediate cluster satisfies the at least one condition;
transmitting, based on determining that storing the data on the intermediate cluster satisfies the at least one condition, the data to the intermediate cluster along the path;
wherein the intermediate cluster:
stores the data; and
transmits the data to the second cluster.