Patent ID: 8346748
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computing environment, a method for discovering environment objects in the computing environment to provide information management, the method comprising: querying the computing environment to discover and collect information about the environment objects in the computing environment by an information management system, wherein the information management system is configured to identify services for data objects stored in the computing environment and orchestrate performance of the services for the data objects, wherein querying the computing environment includes: providing the collected information to the information management system, wherein the collected information is stored in a database by the information management system, wherein the collected information identifies at least hardware in the computing environment, software operating in the computing environment, a hardware configuration of the hardware, a software configuration of the software, and relationships between the software and the hardware or between software or between hardware; and generating results from the collected information stored in the database, wherein the results enable the information management system to assign service levels to the data objects in the computing environment based on the information collected from the environment objects, wherein the services are provided to the data objects according to the assigned service levels.