US Patent Issued to NetApp on Nov. 4 for "Distributed file system with disaggregated data management and storage management layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,689, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed file system with disaggregated data management and storage management layers" was invented by Ravikanth Dronamraju (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Arindam Banerjee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing data storage using a distributed file system are provided. In one example, a file system instance is deployed virtually in a node of a distributed storage system. The file system instance has a dynamic configuration including a set of services corresponding to a cluster management subsystem and a storage management su...