Tintri by DDN Assigned Two Patents

Fast container distribution with storage acceleration
Tintri by DDN, Inc., Chatsworth, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,430,378) developed by Harter, Tyler, La Crosse, WI, Liu, Rose F., San Jose, CA, and Salmon, Brandon W., Menlo Park, CA, for a “fast container distribution with storage acceleration.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Storage system accelerated techniques to distribute and run containerized applications are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to run a container is received. A snapshot identifier comprising an image data associated with the container is used to create a clone based on a snapshot with which the snapshot identifier is associated. The clone is used to store data associated with at least a topmost layer of the container.”

The patent application was filed on September 19, 2016 (15/269,395).

Dynamic RAID expansion
Tintri by DDN, Inc., Chatsworth, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,430,279) developed by Dittia, Zubin D., San Mateo, CA, Dayal, Shobhit, San Francisco, CA, and Murayama, John, Campbell, CA, for a “dynamic RAID expansion.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Dynamic RAID expansion is disclosed, including: incrementally expanding a redundant storage system comprising a plurality of storage drives by adding one or more storage drives to the plurality of storage drives; and storing, for each stripe included in the redundant storage system, metadata indicating which storage drives in the redundant storage system store valid data for the stripe.”

The patent application was filed on September 12, 2017 (15/702,557)