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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Pivot3, Inc., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
William C. Galloway, Magnolia, TX (US);
Ryan A. Callison, Magnolia, TX (US);
Assignee:
PIVOT3, INC., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed which allow various applications which may utilize a RAID system (or other types of applications) to be executed on the same set of computing devices which implement that RAID system. More particularly, in certain embodiments a virtualization layer may be executed on a data bank. A set of desired application programs may be executed using this virtualization layer, where the context for each instance of the applications executing on the virtualization layer may be stored in a volume kept utilizing the RAID system.