US Patent Issued to Nutanix on Aug. 19 for "Architecture for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment using executable containers and virtual machines" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,551, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Architecture for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment using executable containers and virtual machines" was invented by Binny Sher Gill (San Jose, Calif.), Karan Gupta (San Jose, Calif.) and Miao Cui (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for high-performance computing. A storage control architecture is implemented by a plurality of nodes, where a node comprises combinations of executable containers that execute in cooperation with virtual machines running above a hypervisor. The containers run in a virtual machine above a hypervi...