Therefore FIGS. 1-13 illustrate certain embodiments for managing a two-tier cache with the higher tier being a DRAM cache and a lower tier being a SCM cache by integrating minimum retention times of tracks provided by a host application to a cache management application of a storage controller.
Cloud Computing Environment
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.