Sycomp Assigned Patent

Sycomp, A Technology Company, Inc., Foster City, CA , has been assigned a patent (10,599,880) developed by Garimella, Neeta, and Garimella, Kashyap, Foster City, CA, for “systems and methods for simulating real-world IO workloads in a parallel and distributed storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods, and storage media for simulating real-world IO workload for testing a parallel and distributed storage system are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: identify real-world data from a deployed production environment, simulate a workload by using the original directory tree structure and the original metadata from the files and replacing the original contents of the files with dummy content to create dummy files, write the directory tree structure and dummy files to a system of storage devices, read data from the directory tree structure and dummy files on the system of storage devices, and verify the integrity of the dummy files over the course of a plurality of data management processes and a plurality of data availability processes employed by the storage system.”

The patent application was filed on June 7, 2019 (16/435,394).