US Patent Issued to NetApp on April 1 for "Shared storage model for high availability within cloud environments" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,252, issued on April 1, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Shared storage model for high availability within cloud environments" was invented by Christopher Busick (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Rajesh Rajaraman (Acton, Mass.) and James Silva (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for a high availability solution (e.g., a network attached storage (NAS) solution) with address preservation during switchover. A first virtual machine is deployed into a first domain and a second virtual machine is deployed into a second domain of a computing environment. The first and second virtual machines are configu...