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Teradata Assigned Patent

Allocating resources in mixed SSD and HDD storage environment

Teradata US, Inc., Dayton, OH, has been assigned a patent (8,996,450) developed by Rubio, Paul Anthony, San Diego, CA, for a “system and method for allocating resources in a mixed SSD and HDD storage environment.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for allocating storage devices within a database system including fast solid state storage devices, (SSDs) and traditional hard drive storage device, (HDDs). The method repetitively collects temperature and queue depth data for each storage device, and determines from the collected data points a service time for each storage device. The method then selects, in response to an allocation request, a storage device having a minimum total wait time determined from the current queue depth and service time for each storage device.

The patent application was filed on December 30, 2012 (13/731,057).

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