ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,688, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Storage system reconfiguration alternation for processing intensive workloads and bandwidth intensive workloads" was invented by Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system configuration alternation system implements storage system reconfiguration alternation by determining a first set of storage system optimization policies to be applied during periods where the workload on the storage system is primarily transactional, and determining a second set of storage system optimization po...