Portworx by Pure Storage Assigned Two Patents

Provisioning of clustered containerized applications
Portworx, Inc., Los Altos, CA, (acquired by Pure Storage, Inc.) has been assigned a patent (10,834,190) developed by Rao, Goutham, Los Altos, CA, Jayaraman, Vinod, San Francisco, CA, and Sangle, Ganesh, Sunnyvale, CA, for “provisioning of clustered containerized applications.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Clustered containerized applications are implemented with scalable provisioning. Methods include receiving a data storage request to store one or more data values in a storage volume implemented across a storage node cluster, the storage node cluster including a plurality of storage nodes including one or more storage devices having storage space allocated for storing data associated with the storage volume. Methods may further include identifying a cluster hierarchy associated with the storage node cluster, the cluster hierarchy identifying storage characteristics of the plurality of storage nodes, the cluster hierarchy also identifying physical location information for the plurality of storage nodes, the physical location information indicating node-to-node proximity on a network graph. Methods may also include selecting a storage node on which to store the data, the selecting being based, at least in part, on the identified storage characteristics and one or more data distribution parameters associated with the storage volume.”

The patent application was filed on January 18, 2018 (15/874,115).

Hyper-convergence with scheduler extensions for software-defined container storage solutions
Portworx, Inc., Los Altos, CA, (acquired by Pure Storage, Inc.), has been assigned a patent (10,831,540) developed by Israni, Dinesh, Santa Clara, CA, Jayaraman, Vinod, San Francisco, CA, and Rao, Goutham, Los Altos, CA, for a “hyper-convergence with scheduler extensions for software-defined container storage solutions.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A clustered storage system may include potentially many different nodes, each including a storage driver and a scheduler agent. A node may mount a virtual storage volume for the use of a container application at the node. When a master node receives a request to instantiate a new containerized application, a scheduler at the master node may determine prioritization information for the new containerized application. The prioritization information may prioritize one or more nodes at which a virtualized storage volume employed by the application container instance is mounted.”

The patent application was filed on February 27, 2018 (15/907,181).