US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on July 8 for "Selecting storage resources based on data characteristics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,746, issued on July 8, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selecting storage resources based on data characteristics" was invented by Andrew Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.), Zoltan Dewitt (Daly City, Calif.) and John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selecting storage resources based on data characteristics, including: determining, for data that is stored within a storage system that includes multiple types of data storage, a storage type to use for the data, wherein: the data is associated with one more snapshots that are stored in the storage system, and the determination is based on whe...