US Patent Issued to Nutanix on April 8 for "Architecture for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,747, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Architecture for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment" was invented by Mohit Aron (Saratoga, Calif.), Dheeraj Pandey (San Ramon, Calif.) and Ajeet Singh (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an improved approach to implement I/O and storage device management in a virtualization environment. According to some approaches, a Service VM is employed to control and manage any type of storage device, including directly attached storage in addition to networked and cloud storage. The Service VM implements the Storage Contro...