US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on May 6 for "Commissioning and decommissioning metadata nodes in a running distributed data storage system" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,622, issued on May 6, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Commissioning and decommissioning metadata nodes in a running distributed data storage system" was invented by Lasaro Camargos (Uberlandia, Brazil), Bharat Pundalik Naik (Palo Alto, Calif.), Avinash Lakshman (Fremont, Calif.) and Deepak Jain (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a running distributed data storage system that actively processes I/Os, metadata nodes are commissioned and decommissioned without taking down the storage system and without introducing interruptions to metadata or payload data I/O. The inflow of reads and wri...