Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Thomson Reuters (markets) LLC

Ken Williams

Kishore Kumar Reddy Devireddy

Michael Liberty

An example system may include a first rack including a first access node and a second rack including a second access node and a storage node. The first and second racks are included within a multi-rack distributed storage system. The first access node is configured to receive over a connection with a client a first request for an object data. The connection with the client is uniquely identified by a connection ID independent of source and destination addresses and ports. The first access node is further configured to determine object data locality details of the object data and relocate the connection to the second access node in the second rack when the object data locality details of the object data indicate the object data is located within the second rack.

Reduction of adjacent rack traffic in multi-rack distributed object storage systems

An example system comprises a first access node in a first rack configured to engage in a connection with a client, and a second access node in a second rack. The first and second racks form a multi-rack distributed storage system. The system includes a distributed database including a first load indicator designating a first processing load of the first access node and a second load indicator designating a second processing load of the second access node. The distributed database is accessible to the first and second access nodes. The system further includes a connection relocation manager configured to relocate the connection with the client from the first access node to the second access node when the second processing load is less than the first processing load.

Connection load distribution in distributed object storage systems

A system and method for data compression using compression hardware is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a data set in a data stream. The data set includes a set of data descriptor fields. Using the set of data descriptor fields included in the data set, one or more tabular slices and an index are generated. The one or more tabular slices are compressed into a compressed data block by a data compression scheme using a hardware compressor. A compression data file is generated using the compressed data block and stored in a database.

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