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Patent No.:

US 8886705 B1

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Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2003
Applicants:

Ruchir Tewari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Xiaohui “dawn” Chen, Milpitas, CA (US);

Gregory L. Slaughter, San Jose, CA (US);

Thomas E. Saulpaugh, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ruchir Tewari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Xiaohui “Dawn” Chen, Milpitas, CA (US);

Gregory L. Slaughter, San Jose, CA (US);

Thomas E. Saulpaugh, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Operating Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

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

A system and method for performing goal-oriented storage management for a distributed data storage network. Storage management software may execute on each node to cause the distributed data storage network to converge toward a system-wide storage goal. In various embodiments, the system-wide storage goal may be defined to accomplish any of various kinds of optimizations or performance improvements for the system, such as balancing storage utilization, achieving appropriate data replication, increasing performance, increasing fault tolerance, etc.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Tewari, Ruchir. (2014). Goal-oriented storage management for a distributed data storage network (U.S. Patent No. 8886705). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8886705

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