Patent ID: 7840992
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data protection system comprising: a storage management system functioning as a centralized management tool through which an administrator accesses and manages storage infrastructure and controls data movement between storage arrays, the storage management system being configured to implement one or more data protection procedures for protecting data stored in a storage array, the data stored in the storage array being classified and prioritized; and an environmental information processor receiving information related to an event that poses a threat to the data stored in the storage array, assessing the threat to the data stored in the storage array based on the received information, selecting a precautionary action based on the threat assessment and in accordance with a policy that sets forth different precautionary actions to be taken for different threat assessments, and issuing a command to the storage management system identifying the selected precautionary action, the command causing the storage management system to initiate one or more data protection procedures in order to perform the selected precautionary action identified in the command, wherein the selected precautionary action includes replicating data stored in the storage array to a second storage array in an order determined by the prioritization in response to determining that there is insufficient time to replicate all of the data stored in the storage array.