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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2010
Applicants:

Bradford B. Glade, Harvard, MA (US);

David W. Harvey, Newton, MA (US);

John Kemeny, Westford, MA (US);

Lee W. Vantine, Oxford, MA (US);

Matthew D. Waxman, Waltham, MA (US);

Inventors:

Bradford B. Glade, Harvard, MA (US);

David W. Harvey, Newton, MA (US);

John Kemeny, Westford, MA (US);

Lee W. Vantine, Oxford, MA (US);

Matthew D. Waxman, Waltham, MA (US);

Assignee:

EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An architecture for managing a plurality of storage area networks including a plurality of data storage volumes and one or more hosts, wherein the volumes are in a switched storage network in the storage area networks the architecture comprising one or more processors in communication with switching capability for the switched storage network, wherein the one or more processors include program logic for embodying logical constructions of a storage presentation layer including target virtualization and logical unit (LU) virtualization; and a volume presentation layer including volume virtualization for replication of data.


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