Patent ID: 8688946
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of selecting auxiliary storage media for writing data thereto, said method comprising: obtaining one or more attributes of data, the data to be written on auxiliary storage, and the one or more attributes relating to a type of the data or memory location of the data, and wherein the one or more attributes are to he used to determine whether the data is required, based on the one or more attributes, to be written on a particular type of auxiliary storage; obtaining one or more characteristics of a plurality of auxiliary storage media, said plurality of auxiliary storage media comprising multiple different types of auxiliary storage; selecting a type of auxiliary storage from the multiple different types of auxiliary storage on which the data is to be written, the selecting being based on the one or more attributes of the data, and wherein the selecting comprises: based on selecting the type of auxiliary storage, choosing an auxiliary storage medium of the selected type of auxiliary storage on which the data is to be written.