Patent ID: 7403946

Claim:
A distributed data storage system for a netcentric computing system, comprising: a plurality of database servers; a plurality of data stores each in communication with one of the database servers, wherein the database servers are operable to access the data stores; a client communicating with the database servers, wherein each of the data stores includes a predetermined portion of the data used within the netcentric computing system; a central data store in communication with at least one of the database servers, wherein data representative of the predetermined portion of the data included in each of data stores also resides on the central data store, wherein the predetermined portion of the data in each of the data stores is a replicated portion of the data that resides on the central data store that has been segmented horizontally with a segmentation key, and also segmented vertically to form the predetermined portion of the data included in each of the data stores, wherein the segmentation key is operable to uniquely identify records in the central data store; and a webserver in communication with the client to act as the primary interface between and the client and the database servers.