US Patent Issued to NetApp on Aug. 19 for "Sharing ephemeral storage of a virtual machine for use as victim caches for use by virtual storage appliances in a cloud environment" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,373, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sharing ephemeral storage of a virtual machine for use as victim caches for use by virtual storage appliances in a cloud environment" was invented by Mrinal K. Bhattacharjee (Bangalore, India), Shivali Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Neha Saini (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for sharing ephemeral storage of a virtual machine (VM) for use as victim caches for virtual storage appliances running on the VM. According to one embodiment, a central service may run within the VM and be responsible for managing allocati...