US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 29 for "Methods to synchronously replicate data and manage audit configuration and audit data for a distributed storage system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,464, issued on July 29, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods to synchronously replicate data and manage audit configuration and audit data for a distributed storage system" was invented by Wenqing Gu (Burnaby, Canada) and Kedar Narayan Deshpande (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computer implemented method includes comprises storing objects in a first bucket and files in a second bucket of a first storage cluster of the distributed storage system, initiating an audit job on the first storage cluster, synchronously replicating audit configuration data and mirroring audit data (e...