ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,671, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Evaluating storage device for storage migration" was invented by Shota Kukita (Tokyo) and Takahiro Nakano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage operation support apparatus includes a storage unit that stores storage device information that stores information on a state of a storage device and an evaluation unit that evaluates an evaluation target storage device to be evaluated. With reference to the storage device information, the evaluation unit calculates an environment score indicating a magnitude of a load on an environment of the evaluatio...