A method and system directed to reducing the bottleneck to storage. In one aspect of the invention, a data-aware data flow manager is inserted between storage and a process or device requesting access to the storage. The data-aware data flow manager determines which data to cache and which data to pipe...http://www.google.com/patents/US6922754?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6922754 - Data-aware data flow manager
