Patent ID: 8849783
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A data storage system for monitoring a tape infrastructure including a tape library comprising a plurality of tape drives and a plurality of tape media for use in the tape drives, the data storage system comprising: a server communicatively linked to the tape library; on the server, a storage tape analytics application extracting and processing data sets from the tape library corresponding to operations of the tape library including use of the tape drives and the tape media during data storage in the tape library; and a user interface module providing a user interface for viewing the extracted and processed data, wherein the user interface is generated based on user input defining a subset of the extracted and processed data presented on a screen of the user interface, wherein the subset of the data includes historical and current operation data for the tape library, wherein the screen of the user interface includes a plurality of portlets displaying each displaying a portion of the subset of the extracted and processed data, and wherein each of the portlets can be independently and differently filtered with user-selectable filter criteria to define the portion of the subset of the extracted and processed data displayed.