Patent ID: 9244517
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining that execution of one or more data queries might result in heat generation in excess of a heat rise limit at a source storage device, wherein the one or more data queries are associated with a dataset, wherein the source storage device hosts the dataset, wherein the source storage device is associated with a first cooling area of a plurality of cooling areas, wherein said determining that the execution of the one or more data queries might result in heat generation in excess of the heat rise limit at the source storage device comprises: selecting a second cooling area of the plurality of cooling areas of one or more data centers to accommodate the heat generation based, at least in part, on cooling characteristics of a plurality of cooling appliances of the plurality of cooling areas, wherein each cooling area of the plurality of cooling areas is serviced by a set of one or more cooling appliances of the plurality of cooling appliances; determining a target storage device associated with the second cooling area; and moving the dataset from the source storage device to the target storage device.