Amplidata/HGST/WDC Assigned Patent
Hybrid distributed storage system
By Francis Pelletier | June 1, 2017 at 2:48 pmAmplidata NV, (acquired by HGST/WDC), Ghent, Belgium, has been assigned a patent (9,645,885) developed by De Schrijver, Frederik, Wenduine, Belgium, Stougie, Bastiaan, Melle, Belgium, and De Keyser, Koen, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium, for a “hybrid distributed storage system.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “There is provided a distributed object storage system that includes several performance optimizations with respect to efficiently storing data objects when coping with a desired concurrent failure tolerance of concurrent failures of storage elements which is greater than two and with respect to optimizing encoding/decoding overhead and the number of input and output operations at the level of the storage elements.“
The patent application was filed on May 14, 2015 (14/712,570).
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