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W Jeff Westerinen

Michael Richard Fortin

Charles Patrick Thacker

John M Parchem

Curt Andrew Steeb

Clark David Nicholson

Mukesh Karki

James Robert Benton

Paul C Sutton

Kartik Nadipuram Raghavan

Raymond D Pedrizetti

Dean L DeWhitt

Thomas C Phillips

Alan R Morin

A method and apparatus to improve the read/write performance of a hard drive is presented. The hard drive includes solid state, non-volatile (NV) memory as a read/write cache. Data specified by the operating system is stored in the NV memory. The operating system provides a list of data to be put in NV memory. The data includes data to be pinned in NV memory and data that is dynamic. Pinned data persists in NV memory until the operating system commands it to be flushed. Dynamic data can be flushed by the hard drive controller. Data sent by an application for storage is temporary stored in NV memory in data blocks until the operating system commits it to the disk.

Method and apparatus to reduce power consumption and improve read/write performance of hard disk drives using non-volatile memory

An apparatus and method to automate the deployment, provisioning, and management of a programmable device for the life cycle states of the programmable device is presented. The system includes an automation interface for a developer to develop modules to aid in the automation of the deployment, provisioning, and management of the programmable device and for a user to direct the system to enter into a state of the life cycle. A controller moves the programmable device into states of the life cycle in response to triggering events occurring.

System and method to automate the management of computer services and programmable devices

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