Hitachi, Ltd.

Tooru Tanaka

Yasunori Kaneda

Yuichi Taguchi

Kenta Shiga

Keisei Fujiwara

Fumi Miyazaki

Satoshi Kiyoto

Junji Fukuzawa

A presence management apparatus connected to first and second apparatuses via a network includes a unit for updating a first user's presence received from the first apparatus and a second user's presence received from the second apparatus, wherein the first user uses the first apparatus and the second user uses the second apparatus; a unit for registering a matching condition for another user's presence received from the first apparatus and designated by the first user and a matching condition for another user's presence received from the second apparatus and designated by the second user; and a unit for deciding if the first and second user's presences match the designated conditions when registration processing and/or update processing is performed.

Presence management apparatus

It is desirable that data stored in an old storage device is migrated to a new storage device without any interruption. According to a computer system of this invention, in a first data storage device, a second data storage area of a second data storage device is recognized as a virtualized data storage area of the first data storage device, a data copy relation between the first data storage area and the virtualized data storage area is established, the second data storage area is recognized from the computer based on the data copy relation, data is copied from the first data storage area to the virtualized data storage area based on the data copy relation, and after completion of a data copy operation, a connecting path is switched from the first data storage area to the second data storage area based on the data copy relation.

Data migration method

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Kawasaki, Japan

Tooru Tanaka