DATA-AWARE DATA FLOW MANAGER

摘要

A system for reducing the bottleneck to storage by implementing a data-aware data flow manager (120) between a storage device (125) and a process or device (105) requesting access to the storage. The data flow manager determines which data to cache and which data should bypass the cache. Through intelligent management and caching of data, the data flow manager is able to avoid some of the latencies created by the use of cache memory associated with the storage device. The data flow manager may determine caching policies based on the type of data requested, the state of the cache, user policies, or system policies.