Cohesity Assigned Patent
Using secondary storage system to implement hierarchical storage management plan
By Francis Pelletier | December 15, 2022 at 2:00 pmCohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11494105) developed by Ng, Yu-Shen, Mandagere, Nagapramod, Mountain View, CA, and Chawla, Karandeep Singh, Santa Clara, CA, for “using a secondary storage system to implement a hierarchical storage management plan.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A copy of files of a primary storage system are stored at a secondary storage system. The metadata associated with the copy of the files of the primary storage system stored at the secondary storage system are analyzed to determine at least a portion of a hierarchical storage tier management plan for the primary storage system including by identifying one or more files to be migrated from a first tier of storage of the primary storage system to a different storage tier. An implementation of at least a portion of the hierarchical storage tier management plan is initiated.”
The patent application was filed on 2020-05-01 (16/865098).