US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 8 for "Pre-provisioning storage volumes in the public cloud to reduce provisioning latencies" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,297, issued on April 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Pre-provisioning storage volumes in the public cloud to reduce provisioning latencies" was invented by Kapil Jain (Bedford, N.H.), Patrick Sullivan (Danville, N.H.) and Michael Behrendt (Sindelfingen-Maichingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and related method reduce public cloud provisioning latencies using one or more processors. The method comprises, prior to receiving a volume provisioning request from a user, creating a pool of pre-provisioned generic volumes. The method further comprises receiving the request from th...