US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Oct. 28 for "Copy execution time optimization system management" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,797, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Copy execution time optimization system management" was invented by Noriko Ichikawa (Tokyo) and Jun Nakajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system managing apparatus decides a time optimum for executing data copying from a copy source volume to a copy destination volume, and manages an RPO requirement of a user and a quiescing time period for each application at the time of a copy start. The system managing apparatus calculates a copy execution time and a copy execution interval such that data in which application consistency is maintained c...