Patent ID: 7640345

Claim:
A method for providing information management in a computer system, the method comprising: at an information management system, collecting information about objects in a network, the objects including data, servers and services operating in the network, to discover relationships that exist for the data, servers and services in the network prior to classifying the objects; individually classifying the objects to assign categories to each object; mapping the categories assigned to each object to one or more service levels wherein said mapping the categories assigned to each object maps each object to one or more services levels based on the categories assigned to each object; mapping the service levels to one or more available services of one or more service providers; and after mapping the service levels to one or more available services, orchestrating one of a plurality of services for a particular object from the classified objects comprising: proposing a particular service from the plurality of services needing to be performed on the particular object based on the categories assigned to the particular object; identifying a particular service provider that is available to perform the particular service, the particular service provider being located at a specified location; and transmitting a request to the particular service provider to execute the particular service on the particular object, wherein the particular object is stored at a location different from the specified location of the particular service provider when the particular service is executed on the particular object.