Patent ID: 8918439

Claim:
A method for managing data storage within a Cloud computing environment, comprising: accessing a set of policies for managing storage of data, the set of policies automating valuation of the data and migration of the data between a set of storage tiers of a particular cloud within the Cloud computing environment; assessing the set of policies to determine effects of implementing the set of policies; implementing the set of policies; providing a set of recommendations based on the implementation of the set of policies, the set of recommendations comprising a visual summary depicting a prediction of a value of the data, as well as generating a migration strategy for dynamically moving the data between the set of storage tiers of the particular cloud over time as the prediction of the value of the data changes, the visual summary comprising at least one characteristic including cost, migrations, storage capacity, input/output (I/O) rate, latency, and throughput for at least one storage tier of the set of storage tiers; and generating output based on the set of recommendations.