Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Pure Storage, Inc.

Ashish Karkare

Jian Feng Chen

Alon Marcu

Vsevolod Mountaniol

Robert S Wu

Andrew R Bernat

Peter E Kirkpatrick

Anthony Niven

Eric Kelly Blanchard

In one implementation, a system resource is added to a storage system, for a resource-preserving upgrade. An upgrade component is coupled to the storage system as a temporary storage system shelf. Storage drives are moved from the storage system to the upgrade component. One or more storage controllers of the upgrade component are promoted to take over data services from the storage system.

Upgrade for system with differing capacities

High availability controller pair transitioning

The following embodiments generally relate to the use of a 'swap area' in a non-volatile memory as an extension to volatile memory in a computing device. These embodiments include techniques to use both volatile memory and non-volatile swap memory to pre-load a plurality of applications, to control the bandwidth of swap operations, to encrypt data stored in the swap area, and to perform a fast clean-up of the swap area.

Method and computing device for controlling bandwidth of swap operations

Method and computing device for using both volatile memory and non-volatile swap memory to pre-load a plurality of applications

Method and computing device for encrypting data stored in swap memory

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Ashish Karkare