US Patent Issued to HITACHI on June 3 for "Copy data's tier management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,626, issued on June 3, was assigned to HITACHI Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Copy data's tier management" was invented by Satish Kumar Jaiswal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hiroyuki Osaki (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Tomohiro Kawaguchi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein can involve, for a request to create a recovery volume having a specified recovery time objective, identifying a tier from a storage system managing a plurality of tiers that has a restore time that satisfies the specified recovery time objective; and creating the recovery volume in the identified tier of the storage system in response to the...