Tintri Assigned Patent

Tintri, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,463,825) developed by six co-inventors for a "hybrid file system for VM storage."

The co-inventors are Kieran J. Harty, San Francisco, CA, Mark G. Gritter, Eagan, MN, Raj A. Sudarsanam, Fremont, CA, Zubin D. Dittia, San Mateo, CA, Brandon W. Salmon, East Palo Alto, CA, and Vyacheslav V. Malyugin, Los Gatos, CA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage system is disclosed, including: a first storage device of a first storage device type, a second storage device of a second storage device type, and a processor configured to implement a hybrid file system configured to store each of a plurality of data values in at least a corresponding primary location, which for a given data value may be in either the first storage device or the second storage device; wherein the hybrid file system is configured to use a first access approach optimized based on a first access attribute of the first storage device type to interact with the first storage device and a second access approach optimized based on a second access attribute of the second storage device type to interact with the second storage device. Reading data is disclosed, including: determining that a storage location on a first tier storage from which a requested data was written back to a second tier storage has not been reclaimed by a garbage collection associated with the first tier storage, and retrieving the data from the storage location on the first tier storage."

The patent application was filed on April 26, 2011 (13/094,682).