Patent ID: 11954077
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:
receiving new rules for assigning the plurality of files;
re-assigning, based on the new rules for assigning, each of the plurality of files to one of the plurality of tiers of the cloud storage environment to obtain second tier assignments; and
recording the second tier assignments to the updated local cloud meta-data to obtain second updated local cloud meta-data; and
providing the second updated local cloud meta-data to the cloud storage environment, wherein the providing is configured to trigger in the cloud storage environment:
updating the cloud file system meta-data to include the second tier assignments; and
reallocating the plurality of files stored in the cloud storage environment based on the second tier assignments.