SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT, GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED NETWORK STORAGE

摘要

A data storage system (201) comprising a plurality of storage nodes (205), each node (205) existing at a physical location having one or more contexts. Interface mechanisms couple to each storage node (205) to communicate storag e access requests with the storage nodes (205). Data storage management processes select one or more of the storage nodes (205) to serve a data storage request based at least in part upon the particular contexts of each of the storage nodes (205).