US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on March 25 for "Tiering snapshots across different storage tiers" (California, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,106, issued on March 25, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tiering snapshots across different storage tiers" was invented by Alexei Potashnik (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yisha Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Subramaniam Periyagaram (Campbell, Calif.), Dirk Meister (Mountain View, Calif.) and Cary Sandvig (Isle La Motte, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tiering snapshots across different storage tiers, including: creating a snapshot of a dataset, wherein the snapshot includes user data and metadata; offloading the snapshot of the dataset to a first storage level storage system; and migrating, in accordance with a lifecycl...