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Quantum Corporation

John D LaRue

Greg Wade

Barry Herman

Gerald M Simon

Ron Turfitt

Example apparatus and methods use two types of storage to improve boot time associated with recovering a virtual machine running on a hypervisor. The first storage is deduplication based and the second storage is not deduplication based. Example apparatus and methods may read data from the first storage to support operations immediately upon the VM booting and until a full recovery has been completed. Example apparatus and methods may also write a snapshot to the second storage and then support random input/output for the virtual machine from the snapshot in the second storage immediately upon the VM booting until a full recovery has been completed. Having dual devices facilitates using deduplication storage for deduplication-centric I/O while non-deduplication storage is used for random I/O while transfer of a recovery image from a backup device to a primary device associated with the VM is completed.

Immediate recovery of virtual machine using deduplication device and snapshots

A scanner capable of scanning a curved surface such as a bottle or other cylindrical, or curved surfaced object. In one class of embodiments, the present innovations include a scan head and one or more rollers (preferably two rollers, one active, the other passive) on which a cylindrical object turns in proximity to the head. As the object turns, the head records the image on the surface of the object.

Round surface scanner

Solid carbide segments are brazed to the rim of a steel body and then teeth are ground into them. This allows more teeth/inch on the perimeter and larger diameter blades than on previous carbide-tipped blades. The segments, which typically form an arc of a circle, provide the improved performance of carbide blades without excessive expense of solid carbide blades.

Saw blade with inserted multi-tooth arcs

An electric blanket system which runs from an AC power input, and does not use a transformer; but the power supply is rectified and regulated, to reduce the AC component of current by 90% or more (preferably 99% or more). The blanket itself uses a field-cancelling resistor layout, to achieve a further reduction of 95% or more (preferably 99% or more). The combination of these techniques provides a reasonably cheap way to bring the low-frequency magnetic field strength down to acceptable levels.

Electric blanket system with reduced electromagnetic field

A container for storage and transportation of quantities of documents, wherein the box body is made of folded cardboard with thick end walls, and the lid is also made of folded cardboard, with a thick lip, and grommet holes in the lid are aligned with handle walls in the end walls. After the box is filled, and the lid is placed on the box, nylon cable ties are threaded through the grommet holes and handle holes to close the container.

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Dallas, TX, United States of America

John D LaRue