Dot Hill Assigned 105th Patent

Dot Hill Systems Corp. has been awarded a patent related to the company’s RealStream software technology.

RealStream software triples data ingest throughput ⁽¹⁾ while handling more than 5,000 parallel data streams for heavy-duty Internet traffic workloads.

Layered on top of company’s next-generation RealStor OS, RealStream technology is available in AssuredSAN arrays. RealStream software benefits ‘always-on’ bandwidth-intensive applications across a variety of market segments by managing many simultaneous ingest streams with autonomic, real-time and predictive load balancing. Applications that generate this type of workload will become more common, increasing the demand for storage arrays that can provide predictive intelligence to prevent crippling data stream traffic jams.

“As we progress toward the era of the Internet of Things and the third platform, innovations that make a tangible difference in everyday performance are critical because real time matters,” said Ken Day, CTO, Dot Hill. “We developed RealStream software technology in response to the specific storage needs of customers in the areas of high-speed network traffic analysis and big data analytics. Through unique algorithms, RealStream makes it possible to handle more than 5,000 parallel data streams without compromising QoS. This latest patent is a key element of RealStream technology which makes a difference in day-to-day operations for vertical market customers such as big data analytics, telecom and oil and gas.“

The company’s 105th US patent number 8,930,619 describes an innovation that optimizes how RealStream software handles data stream traffic in cache. Company’s patented innovation overcomes this challenge by maintaining various statistics on sequential write-streams received by the storage controller and organizing write-data into as many full-stripe writes as possible.

This invention joins a list of company’s innovations associated with the company’s suite of data management services. Dot Hill’s patent portfolio builds on the IP behind AssuredSAN products, which deliver solid, wicked-fast solutions to customers and OEM partners.

⁽¹⁾ Ingest performance is based on data write operations for parallel streams of IP traffic measured in a network management application.