Patent ID: 8341345

Claim:
A hierarchical storage management (HSM) system, comprising a processor, and a memory, the memory including: a data usage monitor, said monitor extracting and capturing data object information from data objects in a hierarchical storage complex that is managed by a content management system; wherein the data object information includes relationship data for data objects in the hierarchical storage complex, and wherein the relationship data describes how the data objects are related and includes sets of related objects, a relationship type for each set of related objects, a frequency at which each set of objects relate, and a content management action for each set of related objects, wherein the relationship type includes at least one of whether the data objects contain similar content information or whether the data objects are typically opened by a user simultaneously; a data relationship repository, said repository storing the data object information according to a data relationship model; and a system that analyzes the relationship data and makes data management action recommendations for the hierarchical storage complex.