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Rackspace Assigned Two Patents

Flexible resource configuration management for clusters, virtual multi-cluster clouds

Flexible resource configuration management for computing clusters
Rackspace US, Inc., San Antonio, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,411,648) developed by Sims, Paul, San Antonio, TX, for a “flexible resource configuration management for computing clusters.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In an embodiment, a method includes maintaining a pool of server resources, maintaining a pool of storage resources, maintaining a pool of network resources, and initializing, via a meta-cluster software manager, a multi-function cluster associated with a first customer of a datacenter including the pools. This multi-function cluster may include first servers of the pool of server resources, first storage devices of the pool of storage resources, and first network devices of the pool of network resources, and may be managed by the meta-cluster manager.

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2012 (13/536,619).

Virtual multi-cluster clouds
Rackspace US, Inc., San Antonio, TX, has been assigned a patent (9,405,781) developed by Holt, Gregory Lee, Hollywood Park, TX, Gerrard, Clay, Goetz, David Patrick, and Barton, Michael, San Antonio, TX, for a virtual multi-cluster clouds.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An improved scalable object storage system includes methods and systems allowing multiple clusters to work together. Users working with a first cluster, or with a multi-cluster gateway, can ask for services and have the request or data transparently proxied to a second cluster. This gives transparent cross-cluster replication, as well as multi-cluster compute or storage farms based upon spot availability or various provisioning policies. Vendors providing a cloud storage ‘frontend’ can provide multiple backends simultaneously. In one embodiment, a multi-cluster gateway can have a two, three, or higher-level ring that transparently matches an incoming request with the correct cluster. In the ring, a request is first mapped to an abstract “partition” based on a consistent hash function, and then one or more constrained mappings map the partition number to an actual resource. In another embodiment, the multi-cluster gateway is a dumb gateway, and the rings are located only at the cluster level.

The patent application was filed on April 9, 2014 (14/249,301).

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