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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2010
Timothy Allen Stabrawa, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Andrew S. Poling, Naperville, IL (US);
John K. Overton, Chicago, IL (US);
Timothy Allen Stabrawa, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Andrew S. Poling, Naperville, IL (US);
John K. Overton, Chicago, IL (US);
Kove Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A storage system is provided that includes storage controller logic that performs rapid data snapshots. The storage controller logic may provide block-level access to a storage volume. The storage controller logic may store all data blocks of the storage volume in a first solid state memory cache. The storage controller logic may form a snapshot of the storage volume in a second solid state memory cache. The first and second solid state memory caches are addressable with a processor. The storage system may complete the snapshot extremely quickly because the processor may copy from one memory location to another between the first and second solid state memory caches.