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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2006
Tetsuhiko Fujii, Odawara, JP;
Hisashi Takamatsu, Odawara, JP;
Hideo Tabuchi, Odawara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Data in a storage area to be returned from among storage areas of a storage system is deleted without fail, thereby ensuring data security. When a user's storage-on-demand management programis activated in response to a return request from user A's console terminal, the return request is transferred via a communication networkto a server, and a provider's storage on-demand management programmakes a request to a storage management programfor volume initialization and data deletion. After the storage management programissues a volume initialization command after receiving the above request, a control programis activated to initialize the designated volume. Subsequently, the user A's volume access right is deleted by the processing executed by the provider's storage-on-demand management program, and it is reported to the console terminalthat the volume initialization and the volume separation have been conducted.