SGI/HPE Assigned Patent
I/O acceleration in hybrid storage
By Francis Pelletier | January 6, 2017 at 4:39 pmSilicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI), acquired by HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP), Milpitas, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,513,844) developed by Malkin, Kirill, Morris Plains, NJ, for a “system method for I/O acceleration in hybrid storage wherein copies of data segments are deleted if identified segments does not meet quality level threshold.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present system enables more efficient I/O processing by providing a mechanism for maintaining data within the locality of reference. One or more accelerator modules may be implemented within a solid state storage device, (SSD). The accelerator modules form a caching storage tier that can receive, store and reproduce data. The one or more accelerator modules may place data into the SSD or hard disk drives based on parameters associated with the data.“
The patent application was filed on July 18, 2014 (14/335,752).
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