US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on March 18 for "Method to opportunistically reduce the number of SSD IOs, and reduce the encryption payload, in an SSD based cache in a deduplication file system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,180, issued on March 18, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method to opportunistically reduce the number of SSD IOs, and reduce the encryption payload, in an SSD based cache in a deduplication file system" was invented by Nitin Madan (Cupertino, Calif.), Kedar Godbole (Pune, India), Sandeep Nirmale (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rajendra Kumar Bhairy Raj (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a storage system comprising: receiving a first data segment and first metadata associated with the first data segment to be stored in the storage system; storing the first data segment and the first metadata in...