Patent ID: 8522248

Claim:
In an information management system including a series of computing resources performing a plurality of delegated information management processes, a method of performing information management, the method comprising: performing, by an information management system, information management processing operations including: discovering data objects in a computing system; classifying the data objects by assigning categories to each of the data objects; mapping the data objects to service level based on the assigned categories, wherein each of the data objects is considered individually according to the assigned categories; and orchestrating services for the data objects based on the service levels, wherein the services are individualized for each of the data objects, wherein orchestrating services includes executing actions for one or more of the data objects and; delegating, by the information management system, one or more of at least some of the information management processing operations to one or more external computing resources; providing, by the information management system, the external computing resources with access to configuration data required to perform the delegated information management processing operations, wherein the external computing resources perform the delegated information management processing operations using the configuration data; receiving network information from the external computing resources, the network information including results of the delegated information management processing operations performed by the external computing resources, wherein the information management system uses the network information in performing the information processing operations; receiving monitoring information from the one or more external computing resources indicating that the one or more external computing resources are performing the one or more delegated information management processing operations; and performing an analysis of a subset of data objects on which the delegated information management processing operations were performed from the information management system to ensure that the delegated information management process operations have been performed on the data objects, wherein performing an analysis of a subset of data objects includes reviewing the actions executed for at least some the subset of data objects in order to discover or detect any incomplete or incorrect processing operations.