Patent ID: 8832246

Claim:
In a computer system that includes an information management server for providing services to data objects residing in the computer system, a method for providing the services to the data objects, the method comprising an information management server performing: identifying services that are available in the computer system and that can be provided to the data objects in the computer system; identifying service level objectives, wherein each service level objectives is associated with at least one of the services; identifying a data object that has been categorized based upon an intrinsic property of the data object, wherein the data object has been categorized into one or more categories; categorizing each of the data objects into one or more categories; mapping the data object to one or more of the service level objectives, wherein the data object is mapped based on the one or more categories of the data object and based on global rules that apply to all of the data objects, wherein mapping the data objects to the service level objectives customizes the services for the data object; determining a target service package for the data object based on the service level objectives mapped to the data object, wherein the target service package includes a list of services; mapping the target service package to a service package that is capable of providing at least one of the services associated with the target service package ; and providing the services included in the identified service package to the data object, wherein other data objects receive services in the same service package or in other service packages based on how the other data objects are mapped to the service level objectives.