Datrium Assigned Patent

Datrium, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,180,948) developed by Patterson, III, R. Hugo, Los Altos, CA, Biles, Brian, San Carlos, CA, Weissman, Boris, Palo Alto, CA, Reddy, Sazzala, Los Altos, CA, and Venkitachalam, Ganesh, Palo Alto, CA, for a “data storage with a distributed virtual array.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data storage system includes a plurality of hosts, each of which includes at least one processor and communicates over a network with a plurality of storage nodes, at least one of which has at least one storage device, at least one storage controller, and at least one non-volatile memory. At least one process within a host issues data storage read/write requests. At least one of the hosts has a cache for caching data stored in at least one of the storage nodes. The host writes data corresponding to a write request to at least one remote non-volatile memory and carries out at least one storage processing function, data in the written-to node may then be made available for subsequent reading by a different one of the hosts. Examples of the storage processing function include compression, ECC computation, deduplicating, garbage collection, write logging, reconstruction, rebalancing, and scrubbing”.

The patent application was filed on May 12, 2015 (14/710,541).