US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 30 for "System and method for planning and configuring a file system migration" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,285, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for planning and configuring a file system migration" was invented by Alfred G. Prinz III (Austin, Texas), Fountain L Ray III (Austin, Texas) and Douglas Tharon Heath (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A migration plan is created that is based at least in part on an operator input. The resources of a destination file system are provisioned based on the migration plan. One or more processes to migrate the source file system for the provisioned resources of the destination file system are then configured based on the migration plan."...