Pure Storage, Inc.

Benjamin P Borowiec

Terence W Noonan

Ethan L Miller

Constantine P Sapuntzakis

Daquan Zuo

Jimmy T Hu

Neil A Vachharajani

Steve Hodgson

John Colgrove

Joseph S Hasbani

Emanuel G Noik

Patrick East

Ronald S Karr

Andrew R Bernat

Ganesh Ramanarayanan

Alan Stuart Driscoll

Malcolm Sharpe

Ivan Jibaja

Neil Buda Vachharajani

Andrew Kutner

Scott Sullivan

Kyle Seipp

Jayakumar Subramanian

Danbing Zhu

Configurable automated redaction of log data, including: selecting, based on one or more configurable rules, one or more portions of log data; generating obfuscated log data by replacing the one or more portions of log data with one or more obfuscated values; presenting the obfuscated log data; and providing, in response to receiving an approval of the obfuscated log data, the obfuscated log data to a remotely disposed computing device.

Configurable automated redaction of log data

Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a storage array access module from a client-side array services module, a token representing authentication of user credentials and authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user, where the token is generated by a cloud-based security module upon authentication of the user credentials and identification of authorized access privileges for the user; receiving, by the storage array access module from the user, a user access request to one or more storage array services; and determining, by the storage array access module, whether to grant the user access request in dependence upon the authorized access privileges represented by the token.

Multi-array user authorization for cloud-based storage systems

Locally providing cloud storage array services for a plurality of storage systems within a data center by: receiving a request for storage resources from an operating system level virtualization service; determining, among the plurality of storage systems; an implementation of the request from the operating system level virtualization service; and providing storage resources to the operating system level virtualization service in accordance with the implementation of the request from the operating system level virtualization service.

Performance-driven storage provisioning

Placing workloads in a multi-array system comprising a plurality of storage arrays, including: determining, for each of a plurality of storage arrays, a current system activity level trend of the storage array; receiving a performance profile of a workload to be executed on one of the storage arrays; generating, for each of the plurality of storage arrays in dependence upon the current system activity level trend of the storage array and the performance profile of the workload, a projected system activity level trend for the storage array; identifying, in dependence upon the projected system activity level trend for each of the plurality of storage arrays, an optimal storage array for receiving the workload; and placing the workload on the optimal storage array.

Predictive workload placement amongst storage systems

Cloud-based user authorization control for storage system access

An illustrative apparatus is configured to carry out the steps of: comparing one or more performance metrics of a particular storage array in a plurality of storage arrays to one or more corresponding performance metrics of one or more other storage arrays; identifying, based on the comparing, one or more actions for improving one or more conditions of the particular storage array; and presenting one or more projected effects of implementing the one or more actions on the storage array.

Performance metric-based improvement of one or more conditions of a storage array

Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for emulating a local interface to a remotely managed storage system, including: receiving a request for remote access a storage system, wherein access is provided using a user interface ('UI'); identifying, for a user profile, a version of the UI that is utilized when locally accessing the storage system; and presenting, a remote UI for the storage system, wherein a version of the remote UI matches the version of the UI that is utilized when the user locally accesses the storage system, wherein the remote UI provides read-only access to the storage system.

Emulating a local interface to a remotely managed storage system

Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for replicating data to the cloud. A first dataset is replicated from a first storage subsystem to the cloud, with only the changes made to the first dataset since a previous replication event being replicated to the cloud. Additionally, the data may be deduplicated and compressed before being replicated from the first storage subsystem to the cloud. In some cases, the first dataset may be replicated to the cloud in a stream format which is not directly usable and then, at a later point in time, loaded onto a second storage subsystem from the cloud.

Restoration of a dataset from a cloud

Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for performing remote replication including receiving, by a target storage system, an indication that a dataset stored on a source storage system will be replicated to the target storage system; identifying, by the target storage system, portions of the dataset that are not already stored on the target storage system; and initiating, by the target storage system, replication of one or more of the portions of the dataset that are not already stored on the target storage system from a source other than the source storage system.

Indirect replication of a dataset

An illustrative method includes determining an encryption indicator for a first recovery dataset by determining a difference in an amount or percentage of incompressible data associated with the first recovery dataset compared to an amount or percentage of incompressible data associated with a second recovery dataset that temporally precedes the first recovery dataset, the encryption indicator representative of data within or represented by the first recovery dataset that cannot be compressed more than a threshold amount; and performing, based on the encryption indicator for the first recovery dataset, an action with respect to the second recovery dataset, wherein the second recovery dataset is usable to restore data maintained by a storage system to a second state corresponding to a second point in time that temporally precedes a first point in time corresponding to the first recovery dataset.

Encryption indicator-based retention of recovery datasets for a storage system

Providing storage resources from a storage pool

An illustrative method includes a data protection system determining an encryption indicator for a first recovery dataset associated with a storage system, the encryption indicator representative of a likelihood that a threshold amount of data associated with the first recovery dataset is encrypted; and performing, based on the encryption indicator for the first recovery dataset, an action with respect to a second recovery dataset associated with the storage system.

Storage system snapshot retention based on encrypted data

Storage array access control from cloud-based user authorization and authentication

Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for using a cloud assist service to generate a read-only GUI to view the status of a storage system. An authorized user can login remotely to the cloud assist service to view the read-only GUI of the storage system. The read-only GUI will present a view of the status of the storage system that is similar to a local GUI available to users connecting directly to the storage system. Responses used to generate the local GUI are recorded and simulated by the cloud assist service to create a familiar read-only GUI.

Remote emulation of a storage system

Proactively optimizing a storage system, including: generating, at a storage system services provider, a list of problem storage systems among a group of storage systems monitored by the storage system services provider; selecting a problem storage system from the list of problem storage systems based on two or more criteria; determining a system update for the selected problem storage system to address a problem with the selected problem storage system; and applying the system update to the selected problem storage system.

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Benjamin P Borowiec