US Patent Issued to Hitachi Vantara on April 29 for "Storage system, management method of storage system, and management device of storage system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,976, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system, management method of storage system, and management device of storage system" was invented by Yukiya Maeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data movement for reducing an environmental load in a hierarchical storage is appropriately determined. A storage system includes an upper-level storage device and a management device. The management device is configured to determine, for each file stored in the upper-level storage device, based on a size of a target file and an access frequency of the target file, and the power consumption infor...