US Patent Issued to Nutanix on Nov. 25 for "Site and storage tier aware reference resolution" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,563, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Site and storage tier aware reference resolution" was invented by Brajesh Kumar Shrivastava (Bihar, India), Kai Tan (Cary, N.C.) and Pranab Patnaik (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A site and storage tier aware technique replicates data as one or more recovery points (RPs) from a primary site to a secondary site in a multi-site data replication environment. A storage tier aware reference resolver determines (i) an amount of RP data transfer associated with the replication and (ii) location information associated with a cloud storage tier storing the R...