Patent ID: 8868720

Claim:
In an information management service operating in a network, a method of improving information management efficiency, the method comprising: an information management server offloading one or more information management operations by delegating the one or more information management operations to one or more external computing resources in a network, wherein the information management server provides intelligence to the one or more external computing resources to perform the one or more information management operations, wherein the one or more external computing resources perform the information management operations to collect information from objects in the network, the objects including at least data objects stored in the network; the information management server receiving the collected information from the one or more external computing resources, the collected information identifying objects in the network; the information management server identifying services for each object in the network, wherein the information management server uses the collected information to consider the objects individually when identifying the services; and the information management and the external computing resources providing information management for each object individually within the network, wherein providing the information management to the objects includes classifying each data object based at least on the collected information in at least one category, assigning service levels to each data object based on the assigned categories, and orchestrating the services for the objects within the network based on the assigned service levels.