ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,889, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Multi-cloud tiering translation to enterprise tiers" was invented by Inga Sogaard (Derby, Kan.), Hana Schuster Smith (Boulder, Colo.) and Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards mapping the storage tiers of various multi-cloud vendors to an enterprise's storage tiers and the enterprise's associated storage tier datasets, based on enterprise storage tiering definition data. Once mapped, the storage tier datasets are populated based on the vendor's per-tier metadata that are associ...