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Colin S. Dawson
Researcher at IBM
Publications - 51
Citations - 1062
Colin S. Dawson is an academic researcher from IBM. The author has contributed to research in topics: Backup & Object (computer science). The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 51 publications receiving 1062 citations.
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Policy based tiered data deduplication strategy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method, system, and computer program for the application of data deduplication according to a policy-based strategy of tiered data.
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System and method for server-to-server data storage in a network environment
Colin S. Dawson,Barry Fruchtman,Harry Clayton Husfelt,Michael Allen Kaczmarski,Don Paul Warren +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a server-to-server protocol is used to establish a communication connection between the source server and target server while programming allows the storage of the data from a source server on the physical storage at the target server, while also creating a virtual volume at the source servers on which the data is also stored.
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Apparatus, system, and method for data access management
TL;DR: An apparatus, system, and method for data access management on a storage device connected to a storage area network is described in this paper, where the storage server also includes a storage manager that is configured to manage data access by the storage agent to the requested storage device.
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Replication of data objects from a source server to a target server
Matthew J. Anglin,David Maxwell Cannon,Colin S. Dawson,Barry Fruchtman,Mark A. Hay,Howard Newton Martin +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, data objects are replicated from a source storage managed by a source server to a target storage managing by a target server by querying the target server to obtain a target list of objects at the source server.
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System and method for handling files in a distributed data storage environment
TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for relating files in a distributed data storage environment allows for positive identification of membership of a file within a group, even in a loosely coupled environment where files are not available for comparison in real time.