Storage Technology Corporation

Barbara L Steele

George A Rudeseal

Jay S Belsan

Patrick James Tomsula

Robert J Raicer

Charles Patrick Schafer

Jeffrey Steven Laughlin

Mogens H Pedersen

This file server system appears to the host computer to be a plurality of data storage devices which are directly addressable by the host computer using the native data management and access structures of the host computer. The file server however is an intelligent data storage subsystem that defines, manages and accesses synchronized sets of data and maintains these synchronized sets of data external from the host computer system's data management facilities in a manner that is completely transparent to the host computer. This is accomplished by the use of the snapshot application data group that extends the traditional sequential data set processing concept of generation data groups.

File server having snapshot application data groups

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Boulder, CO, United States of America

Barbara L Steele