Patent ID: 8842384
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A data storage system for monitoring and analysis of a tape infrastructure, comprising: a tape library comprising a plurality of tape drives and a plurality of tape media for use in the tape drives; a server communicatively linked to the tape library; a tape analytics database provided in a data storage device; and on the server, a storage tape analytics application with a data adapter receiving and requesting data sets from the tape library, wherein the data sets correspond to operations of the tape library including use of the tape drives and the tape media during data storage in the tape library, wherein the data adapter stores the data sets in the tape analytics database, wherein the storing of the data sets by the data adapter comprises parsing raw data from the data sets and inserting the raw data into staging tables and then transforming the raw data to a predefined data model for further processing by the storage tape analytics application, and wherein the parsing comprises parsing apart text records, converting text to numbers, dates, or times, and performing calculations to convert portions of the raw data into values accepted by the predefined data model.