US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on Feb. 3 for "Distributed data center" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,386, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Distributed data center" was invented by Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Valerie Lotosh (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Erez Sharvit (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can maintain a first data center in a first physical location that comprises first compute hardware, and a second data center in a second physical location that comprises second compute hardware. The system can establish an overlay network that spans the first data center and the second data center. The system can establish a group of virtualized volume identifiers that...