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Nexenta Assigned Patent

Heterogeneous data volume

Nexenta Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,954,669) developed by Aizman, Alexander, and Remanan Pillai, Vineeth, Mountain View, CA, for a “method and system for heterogeneous data volume.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method and system is disclosed for providing a heterogeneous data storage comprising a plurality of storage devices of different types with respect to device vendor, model, capacity, performance and/or function. The present invention employs data access mechanisms specific to the type of underlying storage and the type of data to be stored or retrieved, and provides for integrated remote mirroring, disaster recovery and hierarchical storage management, HSM, as well as improved I/O performance and life expectancy of storage disks. A method of writing to and reading from heterogeneous data volume is also disclosed.

The patent application was filed on September 21, 2011 (13/239,258).

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