US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Oct. 21 for "Storage system and method for predictive rebalancing and controller node management based on load prediction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,998, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system and method for predictive rebalancing and controller node management based on load prediction" was invented by Mutsumi Hosoya (Tokyo), Tomohiro Yoshihara (Tokyo), Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo) and Norio Shimozono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a plurality of drive nodes, a plurality of controller nodes controlling data from a host device to the plurality of drive nodes, and a processor that calculates long-term load fluctuation prediction as prediction of load fluctuation over a certain period of time in the futu...