Patent ID: 7818309

Claim:
A method of managing requests in a computer environment, said method comprising: providing a computer environment, comprising a data storage subsystem, with functionality for: receiving by a request manager of the computer environment, via a request management network, an access permission request from a requester, the access permission request associated with meta data, said meta data corresponding to data maintained separately from the meta data by a data object manager of the data storage subsystem of the computer environment, the request manager determining, responsive to receipt of the access permission request, whether to grant the requester subsequent access to the data through the data object manager, and generating an access permission request response to be sent to the requester across the request management network responsive to the determining by the request manager; responsive to determining to grant the requester access to the data in response to the access permission request, automatically informing by the request manager, via a private network, the data object manager of a data request to be subsequently received by the data object manager from the requester via a data network in response to granting of the access permission request, to enable the data object manager to prepare for the data request, wherein the data request to be subsequently received by the data object manager is at least partially ascertainable from the meta data associated with the access permission request received by the request manager; and wherein the data object manager prepares for the data request to be received across the data network by adjusting utilization of a cache of the data storage subsystem of the computer environment based on information derived from the meta data associated with the access permission request by the request manager before the data request is received at the data object manager from the requester.