Method for determining allocation of tape drive resources for a secure data erase process

A method and computer program product are provided to ensure a timely secure data erase by determining whether allocating an additional tape drive would improve secure data erase performance by evaluating a quantity of physical volumes to be secure data erased, a maximum queued threshold, an average...

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Main Authors SANSONE CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL, KISHI GREGORY TAD, OSTASIEWSKI LAURA JEAN, NORMAN MARK ALLAN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 11.12.2012
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A method and computer program product are provided to ensure a timely secure data erase by determining whether allocating an additional tape drive would improve secure data erase performance by evaluating a quantity of physical volumes to be secure data erased, a maximum queued threshold, an average time to an erasure deadline and a minimum expiration threshold. An additional tape drive is allocated for the secure data erase process when it is determined that allocating an additional tape drive would improve secure data erase performance.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201113115054