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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2010
Geoffrey B. Hoese, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffry T. Russell, Cibolo, TX (US);
Geoffrey B. Hoese, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffry T. Russell, Cibolo, TX (US);
Crossroads Systems, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A data storage gateway and method for providing virtual local storage on remote storage devices to devices. A plurality of devices, such as workstations, are connected to a first transport medium, and a plurality of storage devices are connected to a second transport medium. The storage router maps the virtual storage to one or more storage devices connected to the second transport medium such that the one or more storage devices contain at least a portion of the virtual storage and wherein the storage router allows access from the devices connected to the first transport medium to the virtual storage using native low level block protocol.