ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,183, issued on May 27, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Preserved addressing for replaceable resources" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Par Botes (Atherton, Calif.), Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.) and Peter Vajgel (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preserving a media access control (MAC) address of a virtual server is provided. The method includes assigning a physical computing resource to a virtual server, assigning a physical storage memory resource to the virtual server, and assigning a physical network resource to the virtual server. The method includes...