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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2011
Chaim Koifman, Rishon Lezion, IL;
Nadav Kedem, Tel Aviv, IL;
Avi Zohar, Rosh Haain, IL;
Jonathan Amit, Omer, IL;
Chaim Koifman, Rishon Lezion, IL;
Nadav Kedem, Tel Aviv, IL;
Avi Zohar, Rosh Haain, IL;
Jonathan Amit, Omer, IL;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for compressing a raw logical data object () for storage in a storage device operable with at least one storage protocol, creating, reading, writing, optimizatic in and restoring thereof. Compressing the raw logical data object () comprises creating in the storage device a compressed logical data object () comprising a header () and one or more allocated compressed sections with predefined size (---); compressing one or more sequentially obtained chunks of raw data (---) corresponding to the raw logical data object () thus giving rise to the compressed data chunks (---); and sequentially accommodating the processed data chunks into: said compressed sections (---) in accordance with an order said chunks received, wherein said compressed sections serve as atomic elements of compression/decompression operations during input/output transactions on the logical data object.