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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Janardhan D. Prabhakara, Richardson, TX (US);
Brian D. Burck, Richardson, TX (US);
Bennett L. Perkins, Houston, TX (US);
Jeffrey B. Gibson, Frisco, TX (US);
Sukesh Kumar Biddappa, Murphy, TX (US);
Janardhan D. Prabhakara, Richardson, TX (US);
Brian D. Burck, Richardson, TX (US);
Bennett L. Perkins, Houston, TX (US);
Jeffrey B. Gibson, Frisco, TX (US);
Sukesh Kumar Biddappa, Murphy, TX (US);
EMC CORPORATION, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for a cloud storage system to add a first one of a compute, network, and/or storage layer resource to the service, provision the added first one of the compute, network, and/or storage layer resources, and activate the provisioned first one of the compute, network, and/or storage layer resources into the already provisioned service with minimal interruption of the service to elastically add a resource to the service.