Abstract: The relative importance of a file is determined based on an importance parameter and an information management policy is caused to be applied to the file based on the determined relative importance of the file. The importance parameter may be the author of the file, the number of users with whom the file is shared, the relationship between the users with whom a file is shared, the uniqueness of the file, or the presence of particular keywords in the file.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with information management are described. One example method includes controlling a computerized process to discover an information management client and one or more information management entities associated with the information management client. The example method may also include determining a data movement plan and executing the data movement plan.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with unified information bus are described. One example method includes receiving a unified information object that includes data and associated meta-data; identifying an object type for the unified information object, selecting one or more data transfer components that perform operations on the identified object type and transferring the unified information object to the one or more selected data transfer components.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a system and method for implementing a scalable test environment. The method includes modeling, within a file system environment creator executing on a computing device, a structure of a file system used by an application and intercepting a system call from the application to the file system at the file system environment creator. The method also includes generating a content of the file system dynamically within the file system environment creator based on the system call and the structure of the file system.

Abstract: A respective protection objective (38) that is associated with each of multiple data sets (36) stored on respective nodes (12-20) of a network (10) is ascertained. Each protection objective (38) defines a respective policy for managing the associated data set. The data sets (36) are partitioned into respective importance classes based on the associated protection objectives. A schedule for managing the data sets (36) is determined based on the protection objectives (38) and the respective importance classes (40) into which the data sets (36) are partitioned.

Abstract: An information management control system is disclosed. A planning engine executes on a server and receives a protection service level objective. The planning engine dynamically develops a time schedule of data transfer from a source device. The planning engine also develops a subset of nodes suitable to receive the data transfer in accordance with the protection service level objective. A routing engine receives the time schedule and the subset of nodes. The routing engine generates a coordinating set of connected components from a repository of components to route the data transfer from the source device to one of the nodes suitable to receive the data transfer in accordance with the protection service level objective.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with information management are described. One example method includes controlling a computerized process to discover an information management client and one or more information management entities associated with the information management client. The example method may also include determining a data movement plan and executing the data movement plan.