Tata Consultancy Services Assigned Patent

Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, India, has been assigned a patent (10,180,807) developed by Misra, Prateep, Naskar, Soumitra, Ghosh, Sumanta, Chakraborty, Ankur, and Roy, Nilanjan, Kolkata, India, for “method and system for consolidating a plurality of heterogeneous storage systems in a data center.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for consolidating a plurality of heterogeneous storage systems in a data center comprising collecting data from a plurality of heterogeneous storage devices using data collection tools, using Data Preparation Tool for extracting and translating the collected data, populating a Data Model stored in source storage configuration unit suitable for analysis, analyzing and classifying the collected data by an analysis unit based upon a plurality of attributes, comprising of a Consolidation Advisor that uses the analyzed data and candidate Target System Configurations, Preferences and Constraints for generating optimum number, specification and configuration of the Consolidate Target State infrastructure and mappings of logical units from as-is data center storage infrastructure to the target state, and iteratively validating the same in a Validation task till the final desired consolidation and objectives are met”.

The patent application was filed on October 11, 2012 (14/345,934).