Emc Corporation

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Anoop George Ninan

Boris Farizon

Samuil Shmuylovich

Thomas L Watson

William J Elliott, Iv

Evgeny Roytman

Shuyu Lee

Matthew H Long

Svetlana Patsenker

Keith Alan Carson, Jr

Michael G Hegerich

Dilesh Naik

Daniel B Lewis

Eugenio Korolev

Katakam Gangadhar

Stalin Saravanakumar Thangapalam

Mordechai Zvi Zur

Ameer Jabbar

Sylvia Martin

Charuta Vijaykumar Apte

Hala Salim El-Ali

Rajesh Gandhi

Venkata R Tiruveedi

Anil A Degwekar

Benjamin Thrift

John P Sheehy, Jr

Nigel B Hislop

Dongjun Sun

Santhosh Lakshmanan

Selvamanickam Anbalagan

David W Harvey

Robert Anthony Lincourt, Jr

Salvatore DeSimone

Ethan D Roberts

Puneet B Lal

Anurag Jain

Yevgeniy Motov

Paul Bradley

Stephen A Mendes

Sean R Gallacher

Christopher M Barrett

Ian D Bibby

Valery Altman

Gregory MacKinnon

Shiva Kalyani Ankam

Min Yin

Vladislav Dranov

Patrick J Hunt

Stalinsaravanakumar Thangapalam

Terrence Lewis

Paul Clark

Thomas Demay

Rajesh K Gandi

Vasantha Gopal

Pramod Kulyadi Pai

Venkat R Tiruveedi

Suresh K Biddappa

Adam C LaPlante

Boris Zeldin

Bradley J Hughes

Bharath Sreekanth

Joseph A Condlin

Aleksandra A Messier

John Young

Wesley A Scott

Parashuram Hallur

A method, apparatus and computer program product for handling secure information (e.g., a password, an account number, a personal identification number (PIN), a user identifier, an encryption key, and a path where said secure information is stored) is presented. Secure information is stored in a software container. A plurality of representations of the secure information is provided, each of the plurality of representations for use under different conditions. Dependent on the particular condition, at least one of the plurality of representations of the secure information is provided by the container. The container holds the secure information during all stages of processing in a manner that prevents unauthorized parties from gaining access to the secret in clear form.

Method and apparatus providing a framework for secure information lifecycle

In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to register a second data storage system of a second data center in a first data storage system of a first data center, storing data center connection information to connect the second data center to the first data center, replicating a database to the first data storage system and enabling a first data storage system to access and control components of the second data center using the component connection information and the component management information. The data base includes component connection information to connect the second storage system to the components of the second data center and component management information required to monitor and manage the components.

Managing remote data center from another data center

A system receives managed resource data collected by an agent from a managed resource in a storage area network. The system evaluates conditions associated with the managed resource data to select a read mechanism based on the conditions, and applies the read mechanism to read managed object data from the managed object database. The managed object data corresponds to the managed resource data. After application of the read mechanism, the system synchronizes the managed object data from the managed object database with the managed resource data collected from the managed resource.

Methods and apparatus for selecting a read mechanism

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for replicating a virtual volume. The method includes creating a volume in a first datacenter, the volume in the first datacenter accessible as a virtual volume exposed to the first datacenter and a second datacenter, and establishing replication of the virtual volume to a third datacenter.

Method and apparatus for automated orchestration of long distance protection of virtualized storage

A computer program product, system, and computer-executable method for managing meta volumes in a data storage system, the computer program product, system, and computer-executable method comprising receiving one or more data storage characteristics, analyzing the one or more data storage characteristics, based on the analyzing, creating a policy responsive to the data storage characteristics, and allocating a meta volume based on the policy.

Policy-driven volume expansion

A system, method, and computer program product for storage provisioning in a data storage environment comprising protecting, through an orchestration API, a source volume at a source site by setting the source volume to be replicated to a target volume at a target site through the use of a replication appliance; wherein the API is enabled to create network zones between the source site and the target site for replication from the source site to the target site and wherein the network zone is configured to include the replication appliance; wherein the API is enabled to mask storage devices used to store data on the source volume and the target volume.

Storage provisioning in a data storage environment

A method, system, and computer program product for allocating one or more available ports on a data storage system, the data storage system having one or more data storage volumes, to enable communication with the one or more data storage volumes on the data storage system, the method, system, and computer program comprising filtering the one or more available ports on the data storage system to determine a balanced allocation of a port of the one or more available ports through one or more storage components on the data storage system, and allocating the port to the data storage volume thereby enabling access to the data storage volume through the one or more storage components.

Computer-executable method, system, and computer program product for balanced port provisioning using filtering in a data storage system

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for managing a plurality of storage providers to allocate a second storage provider as an active storage provider. The method includes monitoring respective health states of a plurality of storage providers in a storage infrastructure and determining an unhealthy health state of a first storage provider, operating as an active storage provider, among the plurality of storage providers. The method also includes managing the plurality of storage providers to allocate a second storage provider, operating as a standby storage provider, among the plurality of storage providers as the active storage provider.

Method and apparatus for highly available storage management using storage providers

In one aspect, a method includes reading a configuration file to obtain settings of device drivers for a cloud computing storage array, enumerating a backend driver as the cloud computing storage array in a data storage system, instantiating a default port for the cloud computing storage array and accessing the cloud computing storage array using the data storage system.

Enabling heterogeneous storage management using storage from cloud computing platform

Example embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating a cascaded storage group. The method includes receiving a request to apply a data storage policy to a group of volumes; iterating through all available storage groups in a storage array to determine whether any volumes in a storage group satisfy a first condition of being both common to the group of volumes and not being associated with an existing cascaded storage group; defining a candidate list of those volumes in the storage group that satisfy the first condition; when iterating is complete, selecting as a child group to a parent cascaded storage group, volumes associated with the candidate list that satisfy a second condition; and selecting as a parent cascaded storage group, if the first and second candidate lists both satisfy the second condition, whichever of the first and second candidate lists was iterated through most recently.

Method and apparatus for automated selection of a storage group for storage tiering

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for aggregating physical storage pools and ports into a virtual storage array. The method includes selecting a plurality of physical storage pools in a storage environment, selecting a plurality of ports in the storage environment, and aggregating the physical storage pools and ports into a virtual storage array. Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for aggregating a plurality of storage resource from a plurality of physical storage pools into a virtual storage pool. The method includes selecting a plurality of storage resource from a plurality of physical storage pools and aggregating the plurality of resources from the plurality of physical storage pools into a virtual storage pool.

Method and apparatus for storage management using virtual storage arrays and virtual storage pools

In one aspect, a method includes filtering one or more available ports on a data storage system to determine candidate ports based on at least their hardware redundancy information. The data storage system includes one or more data storage volumes. The method also includes allocating one or more ports to the data storage volume from the candidate ports based on a usage metric to enable communication from a host, using the one or more allocated ports, to the data storage volume through the one or more storage components.

Port provisioning based on initiator usage

Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a system, and a computer program product for creating volumes with data protection. The method includes receiving parameters for creation of a source volume for a host and creating the source volume with data protection according to the received parameters.

Method and apparatus for automated multi site protection and recovery for cloud storage

A method for orchestrating a workflow, including one or more steps, for provisioning a data service on a data storage system, the data storage system including one or more sub-systems, the method comprising orchestrating the execution of the workflow on the data storage system by analyzing the workflow to determine a dependency of each of the one or more steps for provisioning the data service; and based on the dependency of each of the one or more steps, scheduling the one or more steps for execution on the one or more sub-systems of the data storage system, wherein a first step of the one or more steps scheduled on a first sub-system of the one or more sub-systems is scheduled in parallel with a second step of the one or more steps scheduled on a second sub-system of the one or more sub-systems.

Distributed workflow manager

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Anoop George Ninan