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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110276773 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING CONSISTENT SNAPSHOTS FOR A GROUP OF DATA OBJECTS Snapshots that are consistent across a group of data objects are generated. The snapshots are initiated by a coordinator, which transmits a sequence of commands to each storage node hosting a data object within a group of data objects. The first command prepares a data ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276774 | OPERATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM A management apparatus has a control unit for realizing a management function through a comprehensive process of characteristic information of a storage apparatus, a connecting apparatus and a computer. The management apparatus also has an interface for receiving charac... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271067 | Efficient Cloud Network Attached Storage Snapshots of data and metadata associated with the data are created. The snapshot of the data is separate from the snapshot of the associated metadata. The snapshot of metadata is maintained locally in a cloud network attached storage (NAS) and globally. The snapshot of... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271068 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING APPLICATIONS FOR DATA RECOVERY USING STORAGE BASED JOURNALING Disclosed is a method to synchronize the state of an application and an application's objects with data stored on the storage system. The storage system provides API's to create special data, called a marker journal, and stores it on a journal volume. The marker contain... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271143 | BACKUP AND RESTORATION FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE Provided is a RAID controlled storage device of a PCI-Express (PCI-e) type, which provides data storage/reading services through a PCI-Express interface. The RAID controller typically includes a disk mount coupled to a set of PCI-Express SSD memory disk units, the set o... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110271144 | APPROACH FOR DATA INTEGRITY IN AN EMBEDDED DEVICE ENVIRONMENT A system for providing data integrity in an embedded device environment. One approach is operating an embedded control engine with non-battery backup power and providing data backup with inexpensive memory. Just data having changes may be provided to a volatile memory s... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264880 | Object copying with re-copying concurrently written objects Objects are copied concurrently with mutator execution, while tracking writes to the objects being copied. Objects (or fields) that are written into during copying are re-copied to the same destination locations. Mutators use the original objects until copying is comple... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264881 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND REMOTE COPY RECOVERY METHOD Data written in the primary logical volume of the first storage device are transmitted to the third storage device via the second storage device, the data being written in the same location as the primary logical volume within the secondary logical volume in the third s... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264879 | Making Automated Use of Data Volume Copy Service Targets A method for automatically managing copies of source data volumes is provided. A copy management agent receives a message that target volume copies of source volumes are available. The copy management agent accesses the target volume copies of the source volumes. The co... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264877 | STORAGE SUBSYSTEM AND ITS DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM Efficiently utilizing the bandwidth of the host interface unit even after restoration. A controller manages a storage area of a disk as multiple logical units (LUs), as well as measures the bandwidth used by each host interface unit as load information, stores the load ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264878 | Volume Swapping of Point-In-Time Read-Only Target Volumes A mechanism is provided for adding point-in-time copy relationships to a data processing system. A request is received to establish a first point-in-time copy relationship. Responsive to determining that a first target of the first point-in-time copy relationship is tar... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264876 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM A storage system 1 includes a first storage apparatus 100 and a second storage apparatus 100 communicatively coupled to an external apparatus 300. The first and second storage apparatuses respectively have first and second storage areas VDEVs... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264875 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA STORAGE METHOD USING STORAGE SYSTEM A secondary subsystem reads first differential data recorded in a magnetic tape device into a magnetic disk device, and manages such data based on second differential data that was created based on the read first differential data and differential management information... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE GROUPS FOR DEDUPLICATION A storage system comprises one or more pool volumes having chunks for storing data; one or more primary volumes; writable snapshots as virtual volumes for each primary volume which is a common ancestor of the writable snapshots, each primary volume and corresponding wri... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258405 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DATA WRITE TO VIRTUAL LOGICAL VOLUME CONFORMING TO THIN PROVISIONING, AND STORAGE APPARATUS The virtual volume is a virtual logical volume that conforms to Thin Provisioning, and is a logical volume configured from a plurality of virtual areas and used by a plurality of applications. In a case where the storage apparatus receives a write request comprising wri... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258374 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE MEMORY USAGE AND PERFORMANCE OF DATA DEDUPLICATION STORAGE SYSTEMS A method and system of optimizing the memory usage and performance of data deduplication storage systems includes organizing the metadata of data blocks needed by deduplicating storage systems. A three level hierarchy is used. Level 1 stores the metadata on disk along w... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258406 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE APPARATUS A storage apparatus having a plurality of logical volumes, each providing a data storage area to an external device, comprises a storage device providing a physical storage area, and a storage controller creating a plurality of unit physical storage areas from the stora... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258382 | RAID CONTROLLED SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE Provided is a RAID controlled storage device of a serial attached small computer system interface/serial advanced technology attachment (PCI-Express) type, which provides data storage/reading services through a PCI-Express interface. The PCI-Express type storage device ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258379 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE TIER INFORMATION A method of tier management of data comprises performing a tier migration log information setup process which includes selecting an area specified by a virtual volume address and a logical volume address; determining a destination tier for the area based on a number of ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258407 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF A storage system having at least two storage apparatuses capable of partitioning an internal resource into logical partitions and managing the logical partitions, and which replicates data written into a primary volume of a primary storage apparatus as the replication s... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258381 | DATA DUPLICATION RESYNCHRONISATION There is provided a method of resynchronising a previous duplication, started at a first time, of a source logical drive on a destination logical drive. The method comprises tracking changes to the data on said source logical drive since said first time and starting a r... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258408 | CREATING A SNAPSHOT BASED ON A MARKER TRANSFERRED FROM A FIRST STORAGE SYSTEM TO A SECOND STORAGE SYSTEM Storage arrangements including: a first storage system including: a first volume which includes a first data area storing data sent from a computer; and a first processor which stores data sent from the computer in the first volume; a second storage system including: a ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE SHARING ACROSS MULTI-CLOUD ARRAYS A system for resource sharing across multi-cloud storage arrays includes a plurality of storage arrays and a cloud array storage (CAS) application. The plurality of storage resources are distributed in one or more cloud storage arrays, and each storage resource comprise... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252208 | EXPRESS-FULL BACKUP OF A CLUSTER SHARED VIRTUAL MACHINE A computer-implemented method includes creating a first snapshot of at least one virtual machine at a first time. The first snapshot is created at a computing device of a cluster of computing devices configured to share the at least one virtual machine. As an example, e... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246725 | System and Method for Committing Results of a Software Transaction Using a Hardware Transaction The system and methods described herein may exploit hardware transactional memory to improve the performance of a software or hybrid transactional memory implementation, even when an entire user transaction cannot be executed within a hardware transaction. The user code... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246731 | BACKUP SYSTEM AND BACKUP METHOD Provided are a backup system and a backup method for backing up data written by a host into a logical volume provided by a storage system, wherein an update location in the logical volume updated by the host is managed, and the storage system is controlled to selectivel... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246721 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC SYNCHRONIZATION APPLIANCE A method and apparatus for data backup are disclosed. Embodiments of the method comprise receiving a set of data from a local computer, caching the received data locally on the storage appliance in a buffer module, uploading the cached data to a remote computer, and acc... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246732 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING BACKUPS USING WIDE AREA NETWORK One of a backup apparatus and a storage system performs control to store backup data in a storage system which belongs to an organization and/or location different from an organization and/or location to which a storage-target storage system for original data belongs, b... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246639 | System and Method for Redundant Object Storage Systems and methods for redundant object storage are disclosed. A method may include storing at least two copies of each of a plurality of objects among a plurality of nodes communicatively coupled to one another in order to provide redundancy of each of the plurality o... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246814 | Facilitating Persistence Of Routing States In certain embodiments, replicating data elements includes calculating a key value for a data element. The key value is calculated from at least a part of content of the first data element. K computing elements are automatically selected from X computing element nodes a... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246737 | REMOTE STORAGE DISK CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME A storage device system includes an information processing device, a first storage device equipped with a first storage volume, and a second storage device equipped with a second storage volume. The information processing device and the first storage device are communic... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246736 | BACKUP APPARATUS, BACKUP METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN OR ON WHICH BACKUP PROGRAM IS RECORDED Upon production of a backup of a first generation, all of an operation volume is stored. However, upon production of a backup of a second or later generation, an update situation of the operation volume is confirmed, and a physical region of a capacity corresponding to ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246702 | Management Of Configuration Data Using Persistent Memories Requiring Block-Wise Erase Before Rewriting According to an aspect, the values corresponding to each group of parameters are stored in successive memory locations of a set of blocks, and pointer locations are maintained to point to the area where the groups of values are stored. When a new value is received for a... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246832 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA MIGRATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING DATA MIGRATION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON By providing a unit storage area usage information calculation unit that calculates, during copy of data by a data copy control unit, usage information of a unit storage area in a storage unit that stores the data transferred from a migration source apparatus, as unit s... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246733 | RESTORATION OF A PARENT LUN THROUGH MODIFICATION OF A READ-WRITE CLONE LUN AS THE PARENT LUN A method, apparatus and system of restoration of a parent LUN through modification of a read-write clone LUN as the parent LUN are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes transforming a snapshot of a parent LUN from a read-only state to a read-write clone LUN ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246734 | INTELLIGENT DATA STORAGE UTILIZING ONE OR MORE RECORDS Systems, methods, and apparatus for facilitating intelligent data storage utilizing one or more records are presented herein. A write component of a storage medium can receive data and write one or more portions of the data to a storage block of the storage medium. Furt... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246735 | REAL TIME BACKUP STORAGE NODE ASSIGNMENT A method of assigning a storage node from a storage grid to a server is presented. The storage grid includes multiple storage nodes capable of backing up a policy stored on the server. The method includes receiving an assignment request which requests assignment of one ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246714 | MIGRATING CLIENT OPERATING SYSTEMS TO REMOTE STORAGE Embodiments generally provide a utility for migrating an existing user operating system to a remote storage device. A utility for migrating user operating systems according to embodiments automatically detects and fixes inconsistent partition interdependencies resulting... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246984 | STORAGE OPTIMIZATION SELECTION WITHIN A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT Storage optimization selection for virtual disks of a virtualization environment, where the storage optimization can be selected based in part on the disk type of a virtual disk included in a virtual machine. The disk type of the virtual disk can be discovered by the vi... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238935 | Systems and/or methods for distributed data archiving Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to system and/or methods that pair a data extractor with a data accumulator, wherein these components may be located on any one or more computers in a network system. This distributed peer extract-accumulate approach ... | 09/29/2011 |
