US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Aug. 26 for "Migrating similar data to a single data reduction pool" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,640, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Migrating similar data to a single data reduction pool" was invented by Lawrence Mertes (San Jose, Calif.) and Marco Sanvido (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Migrating similar data to a single data reduction pool, including: determining that storage space consumption may be reduced by migrating similar data between a first storage system and a second storage system; and initiating a migration of the similar data, including selecting a migration direction from one of either migrating the first data from the first storage system to the seco...