ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,888, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Performance-based scaling of a virtual storage system" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, Calif.), Joshua Freilich (San Francisco) and Aswin Karumbunathan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic scaling of a virtual storage system, including: detecting, within one or more virtual components of the virtual storage system, a change in performance; determining, in response to the detected change in performance, a scaling response based on the virtual storage system meeting one or more target pe...