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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131274 | Legacy Data Managment Various systems, processes, products, and techniques may be used to manage legacy data. In one general implementation, a system, process, and/or product for managing legacy data may include the ability to determine whether a data request has been received and, if a data... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131275 | NETWORK-ATTACHED STORAGE SYSTEM The invention discloses a network-attached storage system including an interface module, a plurality of storage devices and a storage module. The interface module is configured to be attached to a network. The interface module is for receiving a transmission protocol in... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110263 | MANAGEMENT METHOD OF PERFORMANCE HISTORY AND A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF PERFORMANCE HISTORY A performance history management method and system are disclosed, in which the time-series performance history such as a volume included in a storage device is managed as one time-series performance history at the time of data rearrangement or device change. The data-or... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110262 | Systems and methods for remote raid configuration in an embedded environment Remote RAID system configuration may be implemented in an embedded and out-of-band manner using an information handling system configured, for example, as a RAID server. The remote RAID configuration may be implement, for example, on a RAID server system in the conditio... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110260 | AUTOMATED STORAGE PROVISIONING WITHIN A CLUSTERED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for automatic storage planning and provisioning within a clustered computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). Specifically, embodiments of the present invention will receive planning input for a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110231 | HOME STORAGE SYSTEM In general, embodiments of the present invention provide a home storage system and method of production. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, the home storage system includes a main controller that is coupled to a display controller, an external memory controller, an ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110261 | HOME STORAGE DEVICE AND SOFTWARE In general, embodiments of the present invention provide a home storage system. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, the home storage system includes a graphical user interface for graphically accessing features of the home storage system; an internal storage manageme... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110252 | System and Method for Providing Performance-Enhanced Rebuild of a Solid-State Drive (SSD) in a Solid-State Drive Hard Disk Drive (SSD HDD) Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks 1 (Raid 1) Pair The present invention is a method for implementing a storage system. The storage system may include a disk array having a disk drive pair which includes a solid-state disk drive and a hard disk drive. The method may include the step of copying a data subset of a data se... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084507 | MULTI-LEVEL PROTECTION WITH INTRA-DEVICE PROTECTION IN A RAID ARRAY BASED STORAGE SYSTEM A system and method for dynamic RAID geometries. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller wit... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084504 | DYNAMIC RAID GEOMETRIES IN AN SSD ENVIRONMENT A system and method for dynamic RAID geometries. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller wit... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084509 | Application Independent Storage Array Performance Optimizer A system comprising a performance module and an application. The performance module may be configured to (i) monitor a LUN for a predetermined amount of time, (ii) capture information relating to the LUN, and (iii) store the information. The application may be configure... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084508 | DISK ARRAY APPARATUS AND FIRMWARE UPDATE METHOD THEREFOR This invention proposes a disk array apparatus capable of improving its reliability. This disk array apparatus includes a first controller, and a second controller configured redundantly with the first controller, wherein the first controller and the second controller r... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084505 | RECONSTRUCT READS IN A RAID ARRAY WITH DYNAMIC GEOMETRIES A system and method for dynamic RAID geometries. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller wit... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084506 | DISTRIBUTED MULTI-LEVEL PROTECTION IN A RAID ARRAY BASED STORAGE SYSTEM A system and method for dynamic RAID geometries. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller wit... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072663 | Storage control device and RAID group extension method The present invention provides a storage system having a controller that can extend an old RAID group to a new RAID group without decreasing a processing speed. A conversion part reads the data from an unconverted area A1, converts it into the data based on a new... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072662 | ANALYZING SUB-LUN GRANULARITY FOR DYNAMIC STORAGE TIERING A method for metadata management in a storage system may include providing a metadata queue of a maximum size; determining whether the metadata for a particular sub-LUN is held in the metadata queue; updating the metadata for the particular sub-LUN when the metadata for... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072661 | HYBRID RAID CONTROLLER HAVING MULTI PCI BUS SWITCHING Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid RAID controller with multi PCI bus switching for a storage device of a PCI-Express (PCI-e) type that supports a low-speed data processing speed for a host. Specifically, embodiments of this invention provide a hybrid... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072664 | STORAGE CONTROLLER, STORAGE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD There is provided a storage control system and a method in which various controls to a plurality of storage controllers connected to each other can be effectively performed. The storage control system and method controls first and second storage controllers, in which a ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054431 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED RAID IMPLEMENTATION Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed provide a distributed RAID system comprising a set of data banks. More particularly, in certain embodiments of a distributed RAID system each data bank has a set of associated storage media and executes a similar distribu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054432 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING COMMANDS TO TARGETS Embodiments of systems and methods for routing commands to a distributed RAID system are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments may route a command to an appropriate data bank in a distributed RAID system, where each data bank has a set of associated storage media and exe... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054429 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING DATA ALLOCATION Embodiments of the invention relate to block layout and block allocation in a file system to support write transactions. Regions in a cluster file system are defined to support a block allocation, include both write affinity and wide striping region. An allocation map i... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054433 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLACEMENT OF DATA ON A STORAGE DEVICE Embodiments of systems and methods for a storage system are disclosed. More particularly, in certain embodiments locations of storage devices may be allocated to store data when commands pertaining to that data are received. Specifically, in one embodiment a distributed... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054430 | STORAGE SYSTEM PROVIDING VIRTUAL VOLUME AND ELECTRICAL POWER SAVING CONTROL METHOD FOR THE STORAGE SYSTEM The controller specifies a first VVOL that is a virtual volume of an electrical power saving target and a first RG that is a RAID group of an electrical power saving target. The controller judges whether or not there is a first real area that is allocated to a second VV... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047327 | Disk array device and control method for the same A disk array device includes a disk group that stores therein data, and stores therein an upper limit of multiplicity capable of multiple data transfer using a line, for each line connected with a transfer destination device being a transfer destination of the data stor... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047325 | DISK ARRAY SYSTEM AND TRAFFIC CONTROL METHOD Proposed are a disk array system and a traffic control method with which reliability can be improved by preventing system shutdown. A disk array system comprises a controller for controlling data I/O to and from a backend unit; a plurality of expanders provided in the b... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047326 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMATTING STORAGE VOLUMES Methods, systems, and computer storage mediums including a computer program product method for formatting storage volumes are provided. One method includes creating a storage volume including a global counter and partitioned into multiple storage segments including a se... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041992 | File Server for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) System A system comprising an interface, a plurality of storage arrays, a data processing module, and a switch module. The interface receives data blocks from a host via a network. The data processing module connected between the interface and the plurality of storage arrays, ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042124 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM The present invention provides a technique to efficiently rearrange data in actual regions. A management system acquires load lumped region variation information (access distribution variation amount) indicative of a variation in the positi... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036323 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONFIGURATION SETTING METHOD This storage apparatus has a plurality of physical devices for storing data sent from a host system, and includes a physical device group setting unit for setting a physical device group from the plurality of physical devices based on a policy file which lists matters t... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036322 | RAID DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS The invention is directed to a storage device utilizing laptop storage drives and rackmount server adapted to use the same. The storage device includes a body and drive software. The drive and internal portions of the body are adapted to form contact fits. The software ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMPLICIT UNMAPS IN THINLY PROVISIONED VIRTUAL TAPE LIBRARY SYSTEMS The present invention is a system and method which allows for a VTL system that supports thin provisioning to implicitly unmap unused storage. Such unmap operations may occur even though the VTL system does not receive any explicit unmap requests from its initiators. Fo... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036320 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A CONSISTENCY CHECK OPERATION ON A DEGRADED RAID 1E DISK ARRAY A system and method for performing a consistency check operation on a degraded RAID 1E disk array is disclosed. In one embodiment, in a method for performing a consistency check on a degraded RAID 1E disk array, a read request is sent to a first row in all mirror sets h... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030425 | PARITY DECLUSTERED STORAGE DEVICE ARRAY WITH PARTITION GROUPS This disclosure relates to parity declustered storage device arrays having partition groups. In an exemplary embodiment, the storage system includes a storage device array, such as disk array. Each storage device is divided into partitions. Each partition includes strip... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030426 | METHOD OF ACCESS CONTROL TO STORED INFORMATION AND SYSTEM THEREOF The presently disclosed subject relates at least to a method and system for controlling access to a logical unit (LU) in a logical storage space, available to a given initiator, representing a corresponding physical storage space, said logical storage space being access... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030424 | Transparent Data Migration Within a Computing Environment Described is a method and system for transparently migrating data between storage systems of a computing environment without disrupting realtime access to the stored data of the storage systems. Specifically, when adding a new storage system to the computing environment... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030410 | HYBRID RAID CONTROLLER Provided is a hybrid RAID controller for a storage device of a PCI-Express (PCI-e) type that supports a low-speed data processing speed for a host. Specifically, embodiments of this invention provide a hybrid RAID controller coupled to one or more (i.e., a set of) semic... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030422 | Resilient Mirroring Utilizing Peer-to-Peer Storage An apparatus and associated method including a first storage device and a second storage device, each coupled to a remote server independently of the other via a network. Resilient mirroring logic is stored in each of the storage devices that establishes a peer-to-peer ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030423 | STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROLLING METHODS FOR THE SAME AND PROGRAMS This invention ensures the provision of data as complete files in the storage device capable of processing both block I/O and file I/O. For this purpose, for each of the logical volumes, this invention attempts to unmount logical units (LUs) storing files triggered by a... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023292 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME A storage apparatus and its control method capable of implementing thin provisioning and reducing power consumption of storage devices are provided. A storage apparatus classifies a plurality of storage devices, which provide a pool with a ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023290 | STORAGE SYSTEM CONFIGURED FROM PLURALITY OF STORAGE MODULES AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING COUPLING CONFIGURATION OF STORAGE MODULES There are a loose coupling and a tight coupling as the coupling configurations for a first module and a second module. The loose coupling is a coupling configuration in which the first and second modules are coupled together by way of a front-end path, and the first mod... | 01/26/2012 |
