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7490088 Apparatus, system, and method for preserving connection/position data integrity during file server serialization reinitialization  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for preserving connection/position data integrity during reinitialization of serialization information in a file server. The apparatus includes a...
7487309 Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner  
Multiple applications request data from multiple storage units over a computer network. The data is divided into segments and each segment is distributed randomly on one of several storage units,...
7487308 Identification for reservation of replacement storage devices for a logical volume to satisfy its intent  
A method, system, and computer program product for identifying and reserving suitable replacement storage devices for use when a storage device underlying a logical volume fails or when the size of...
7487311 System and method for asynchronous backup of virtual disks in a distributed storage array  
Systems and methods for asynchronous backup of virtual disks in a distributed storage array are disclosed. An exemplary method may comprise receiving an IO stream at the virtual disks in the...
7487294 RAID systems and setup methods thereof  
A RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) system is provided. At least a first group of disks is selected to create a RAID 5 architecture. A second group of disks within the first group is...
7487292 Magnetic disk apparatus, control method and control program therefor  
A magnetic disk apparatus capable of effectively achieving speedup of the response to a read request, a control method and control program therefore are provided. In a control of a magnetic disk...
7487386 Method for increasing file system availability via block replication  
According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed herein that includes creating a flashcopy of initial replica data, performing a recovery of the created flashcopy, and exporting the recovered...
7487310 Rotation policy for SAN copy sessions of ISB protocol systems  
Systems and methods for performing scheduled backups and recovery of data generated by a production application operating on a MAGIC platform located on a host computer. The data is stored in a...
7487312 Apparatus, system, and method for copy protection  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for facilitating copy protection. The apparatus includes a definition module, a request module, and a determination module, each coupled to a first...
7484119 Method, apparatus, computer program and computer program product for adjusting the frequency at which data is backed up  
Disclosed is a method, apparatus, computer program and computer program product for adjusting the frequency at which data is backed up. This involves receiving a target recovery time. A current...
7484051 Apparatus, system and method for reliably updating a data group in a read-before-write data replication environment using a comparison file  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for reliably updating a data group in a data replication environment. The apparatus, system, and method reliably update the data group by receiving an...
7483926 Production server to data protection server mapping  
A method and system for backing up and restoring data of production servers. A mapping that maps volumes of production servers to volumes of a data protection server is maintained on the data...
7484058 Reactive deadlock management in storage area networks  
Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments can detect and alleviate potential or actual deadlock of a storage switch or storage area network when attempting to write data to a...
7484059 Full array non-disruptive migration of extended storage functionality  
Described are systems and methods of migrating data and metadata from a source storage array to a destination storage array transparently with respect to a storage application executing on a host....
7484050 High-density storage systems using hierarchical interconnect  
A system and method for coupling a host to a drive in a high-capacity data storage system are disclosed. The data storage system comprises a number of drives arranged in a hierarchical manner. A...
7480779 Storage system, data restoring method, and data access method  
This invention provides a storage system in which a volume containing WORM data is restorable. A control unit, after the copying is finished, consults a first meta data associated with data stored...
7480682 In-place preservation of file system objects during a disk clone operation  
A cloning manager preserves in-place file system objects during a clone operation. The cloning manager determines boundaries of a file system to be created by the clone operation, and identifies at...
7478211 Maintaining consistency for remote copy using virtualization  
Provided are methods for copying storage, wherein a first unit receives data updates from a second unit. The data updates are stored in a plurality of physical storage locations associated with the...
7478270 Information processing device and information processing method for data recovery after failure  
An information processing device and information processing method including a management table that includes three pages. A pair of first and second pages is alternately used as a valid page and...
7478117 Restoring system state from volume shadow copy service by mounting disks  
In some embodiments, during a restore operation, a restore program executes in a restore environment on the restore system. The restore program may create a client environment to which a backed up...
7475204 Automatically managing the state of replicated data of a computing environment  
The state of data of a communications environment is automatically managed. The automatic management is provided via a facility that automatically obtains the current state of the data and uses...
7475199 Scalable network file system  
An incrementally-scalable file system and method. The system architecture enables file systems to be scaled by adding resources, such as additional filers and/or file servers, without requiring...
7475211 Method and system for restoring data  
One aspect of the invention is a method for restoring data, which for example, includes receiving a request for at least a portion of the data. This example also includes creating a directory entry...
7475294 Computer system including novel fault notification relay  
The computer system includes a computer, a first storage system configured to be communicable with the computer, and a second storage system configured to be communicable with the first storage...
7475206 Method for hierarchical control of data migration in a storage system  
A method of selecting logical volumes that are the targets for data migration to equilibrate the load on a system, based on the accessing data of the physical drives and logical drives under the...
7475207 Maintaining write order fidelity on a multi-writer system  
Write order fidelity (WOF) is maintained for totally-active implementations wherein a plurality of access nodes at geographically separated sites can concurrently read and/or write data in a...
7475217 Method of managing storage capacity in storage system, a storage device and a computer system  
A capacity management method of managing a capacity of a storage unit of each storage in a computer system having a plurality of storage devices each having one or more storage units each providing...
7475189 Advanced hardware and software encapsulation of RAID solutions to facilitate data protection  
Systems and methodologies that enable restoration of data by software solutions and in the absence of a hardware RAID adapter, via encapsulation of a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/or...
7475208 Method for consistent copying of storage volumes  
Provided is a method for copying storage. Copy operations are performed on source storage units to copy to target storage units, wherein the copy operations create a consistent copy of the source...
7472221 Mirrored memory  
Accessing data memory includes writing data to a first memory location and to a second memory location in response to a request to write data to a memory address that corresponds to both locations,...
7472173 Remote data copying among storage systems  
The present invention provides a method for guaranteeing a data consistency among a plurality of storages and sites, when data transfer is performed by asynchronous remote copying from a site...
7472238 Systems and methods for recovering electronic information from a storage medium  
In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for retrieving certain electronic information previously stored on certain storage media after a threshold set in the storage retention...
7472242 Eliminating duplicate blocks during backup writes  
Embodiments of the present invention include creating a subsequent backup copy of a data set by storing a full backup copy of the data set to reflect a state of a data set including blocks of data,...
7472241 Storage system and backup method  
A storage system and a backup method achieving enhanced reliability without degradation in the performance of the entire system. A first storage apparatus stores data transmitted from a host system...
7472243 Storage system and control method thereof  
Upon receiving a primary/secondary switching command from a secondary host system, a secondary storage control device interrogates a primary storage control device as to whether or not yet to be...
7472240 Storage system with plural control device affiliations  
The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes and a control device coupling unit. Each of the storage nodes includes at least one storage device configured to store data and at least one...
7472239 Storage system and data management method  
Provided are a storage system and data management method capable of improving the usage efficiency of a storage extent. With this storage system, a first storage apparatus dynamically allocates a...
7469326 Promotion or demotion of backup data in a storage hierarchy based on significance and redundancy of the backup data  
Moving backup data within a storage hierarchy based on a calculated uniqueness of the backup data and on the estimated significance of at least a portion of the backup data. More unique and...
7469325 Storage system and storage system data migration method  
This storage system modifies the migration plan in accordance with the state of the migration destination when a plurality of volumes are migrated all at once. Migration-source volumes are migrated...
7467269 Storage apparatus and storage apparatus control method  
Proposed is a storage apparatus and its control method capable of performing dynamic load balancing or performance acceleration as a whole by balancing the load to a logical volume. With this...
7467267 Method and system for backing up or restoring data in remote devices over a communications network  
Methods and media are provided for backing up data stored in one or more network-communications devices that are located in a geographic area distinct from where the backup data is to be stored....
7467259 System and method to protect data stored in a storage system  
Systems and methods are provided for generating a snapshot that records desired data, while allowing a client server to continue sending data to the storage system. In an example of an embodiment...
7467324 Method and apparatus for continuing to provide processing on disk outages  
A system and method for continuing to provide processing in a processing system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a processing system is provided comprising a secondary storage device, a memory, a...
7467274 Method to increase the life span of limited cycle read/write media  
A file system technique extends the life cycle of limited read/write media. Rewrite cycles of each file and/or each region of the media may be tracked. Different regions of the media are classified...
7467268 Concurrent data restore and background copy operations in storage networks  
Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for data restore operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage device comprises a processor, a memory module...
7467266 Snapshot management method apparatus and system  
Snapshot sets comprising snapshot criteria are created, maintained, and executed via a command set designed to facilitate managing and conducting snapshots on data distributed across multiple...
7467234 Computer system  
In a computer system, to enable a second computer to take over control of copying of data within the computer system, from a first computer that normally controls copying of data. The second...
7467265 System and method for block conflict resolution within consistency interval marker based replication  
One goal of consistency interval replication is to achieve a consistent copy of data generated by independent streams of writes from nodes in a clustered/distributed environment. Two writes to the...
7464224 Method for controlling storage policy according to volume activity  
A storage virtualization system is disclosed for performing data migration operations among the virtual LU (logical units) defined by the system. In one aspect of the present invention, the...
7464236 Storage system and storage management method  
The storage system of the present invention has a simple configuration and ensures redundancy of the system. The primary storage control device and the first secondary storage control device are...