| CPC G06F 3/061 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A computer-implemented method, executed on a computing device, comprising:
processing a plurality of historical input/output (IO) requests associated with a plurality of storage objects of a storage system from a plurality of time intervals;
dividing the plurality of storage objects into a plurality of storage activity classes using a classification-based machine learning model and the plurality of historical IO requests; and
forecasting a next access time range for each storage object based upon, at least in part, the plurality of storage activity classes.
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