STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE, RECEPTION CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD

Method for remote asynchronous replication of volumes and apparatus therefor

Methods and apparatus for migrating thin provisioning volumes between storage systems

Performance managed computer, program and method for a storage system

Method of setting communication path in storage system, and management apparatus therefor

FILE INPUT/OUTPUT METHOD

File server, file management system and file relocation method

Methods and systems for dynamically switching between communications protocols

STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING EFFICIENT DATA DEDUPLICATION BY METADATA GROUPING

Method and apparatus for logical volume management

System and method for secure and reliable multi-cloud data replication

Methods and systems for providing translations of data retrieved from a storage system in a cloud computing environment

Storage system, path management method and path management device

Methods and systems for automated management of virtual resources in a cloud computing environment

Client application program interface for network-attached storage system

System and method for restoring a virtual disk from a snapshot

Method and apparatus for performing volume replication using unified architecture

Computer system and storage pool management method

Storage capacity management system in dynamic area provisioning storage

Method and system for optimizing network input/output performance

Enabling and disabling device images on a platform without disrupting BIOS or OS

Method, apparatus, and system for exchanging services in a distributed system

Data mover permitting data transfer without transferring data between application and operating system

Channel subsystem server time protocol commands

Method for managing volume groups considering storage tiers

Refactoring virtual data storage hierarchies

Method and apparatus for increasing an amount of memory on demand when monitoring remote mirroring performance

DATA COPYING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A THIN PROVISIONED SYSTEM

Virtual tape device, virtual library system, and virtual tape control method

DATA MOVEMENT WITH REDUCED SERVICE OUTAGE

Logical volume transfer method and storage network system

In-network online storage with increased session bandwidth

Estimating space in a compressed volume

Consumer share quota feature

Method, apparatus and computer program product for maintaining file system client directory caches with parallel directory writes

Disk array unit, and method and program for controlling power source in disk array unit

STORAGE SYSTEM THAT IS CONNECTED TO EXTERNAL STORAGE

RETRIEVAL OF CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY-SPLIT DATA BLOCKS FROM FASTEST-RESPONDING STORAGE DEVICES

Method and apparatus for rebuilding data in a dispersed data storage network

METADATA SERVER AND DISK VOLUME SELECTING METHOD THEREOF

Accelerating internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) proxy input/output (I/O)

Asynchronous distributed garbage collection for replicated storage clusters

Methods and apparatus for content-aware data partitioning

Methods and apparatus for content-aware data de-duplication

ASYMMETRIC CLUSTER FILESYSTEM

STORAGE SECURITY USING CRYPTOGRAPHIC SPLITTING

Multi-pathing with SCSI I/O referrals

System and method for data migration between computer cluster architecture and data storage devices

Storage management system for virtual machines

Scaling of small computer system interface input output (SCSI I/O) referrals

TRANSPORT AGNOSTIC SCSI I/O REFERRALS

Systems and Methods for Resynchronizing Information

Storage system, remote copy and management method therefor

System for accessing a data set on the basis of A-priori knowledge of an interconnection of a plurality of corresponding data files in response to an access message from a client to a master

Data storage control on storage devices

Multi-class heterogeneous clients in a clustered filesystem

Storage apparatus and storage area allocation method

Efficient alert mechanism for overutilization of storage resources

Information processing system, controlling method in information processing system, and managing apparatus to manage remote copy in consideration of saving power

System and method for multi-tiered meta-data caching and distribution in a clustered computer environment

Recording medium storing control program for decentralized data, storage management program, control node, and disk node

Disk system adapted to be directly attached to network

Virtual volume control method involving device stop

Control System for Legacy Computers Using Peripheral Devices

Information processing apparatus, divided management server, information processing method, divided management method, program and information processing system

Storage system and virtual interface management method using physical interface identifiers and virtual interface identifiers to facilitate setting of assignments between a host computer and a storage apparatus

Control method of device in storage system for virtualization

Management of ownership control and data movement in shared-memory systems

Storage system, load distribution management method, and storage medium

FIBER CHANNEL STORAGE SERVER

System and method for building multiple online legal research applications

Cluster control protocol

Storage System and Operation Method Thereof

Volume and failure management method on a network having a storage device

Method and system for controlling information of logical division in a storage controller

Dynamic performance virtualization for disk access

Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage

Thin import for a data storage system

Storage system and management method of file system using the storage system

Lookup Partitioning Storage System and Method

Storage Area Allocation Method and a Management Server

Data allocation and replication across distributed storage system

Control I/O offload in a split-path storage virtualization system

Target routing by initiator

DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM

Storage management method and management server

Remote office duplication

Input/output workload analysis method and system for a storage area network

Power savings using dynamic storage cluster membership

Control method with management server apparatus for storage device and air conditioner and storage system

Partition management in a partitioned, scalable, and available structured storage

Remote backup and restore

Method and apparatus for resource provisioning

Optimizing defragmentation operations in a differential snapshotter

Application migration and power consumption optimization in partitioned computer system

Storage system and remote copy control method

Embedded scale-out aggregator for storage array controllers

Volume management for network-type storage devices

Network storage system, disk array device, host device, access control method, and data access method

Remote copy system

Distributed file serving architecture with metadata storage and data access at the data server connection speed

Apparatus, system and method for caching writes by multiple clients to a virtualized common disk image

Storage-network de-duplication

Storage system and communications method

Failure management method in thin provisioning technology for storage

Method and apparatus for improving file access performance of distributed storage system

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING DATA TO FACILITATE DATA DEDUPLICATION

Information processing apparatus, and operation method of storage system

Computer system for hierarchically managing a journal and method therefor

Intelligent extent initialization in storage environment

Management computer used to construct backup configuration of application data

Device for control of switching of storage system

Method and system for accessing storage via the internet

Security for logical unit in storage subsystem

Load sharing method and system for computer system

Server-embedded distributed storage system

System and method for chunk based tiered storage volume migration

Hash join using collaborative parallel filtering in intelligent storage with offloaded bloom filters

Policy based sharing of redundant data across storage pools in a deduplicating system

Semantic data migration

Systems and methods for performing replication copy storage operations

Storage area network and method for provisioning therein

Resource arbitration for shared-write access via persistent reservation

COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING COMPUTER TO NETWORK DISK

System and method for controlling automated page-based tier management in storage systems

Method of constructing replication environment and storage system

Computer system and control method therefor

Storage-side storage request management

Storage subsystem and remote copy system using said subsystem

System and method for examining client generated content stored on a data container exported by a storage system

Techniques for resource location and migration across data centers

Apparatus and method for provisioning storage to a shared file system in a storage area network

Method and apparatus for storage migration

TRANSFERRING OR MIGRATING PORTIONS OF DATA OBJECTS, SUCH AS BLOCK-LEVEL DATA MIGRATION OR CHUNK-BASED DATA MIGRATION

DATA TRANSFER TECHNIQUES WITHIN DATA STORAGE DEVICES, SUCH AS NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE PERFORMING DATA MIGRATION

Apparatus and method for managing access among devices

Storage device and control method for managing resources of a storage system

Method and system for providing data accessibility and interlinks between a user and a storage device

Component discovery in multi-blade server chassis

Efficiently managing modular data storage systems

Storage system and control method for the same

Data swapping in a storage system

Switch apparatus storing information indicating access of hosts to virtual storage areas

Storage system with automated resource allocation

METHOD OF MOVING DATA IN LOGICAL VOLUME, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTER

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING PERFORMANCE TO DATA VOLUMES ON DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS AND CONTROLLING PERFORMANCE OF DATA VOLUMES

Storage device having a plurality of interfaces for connection to an external device

Circuits, systems, and methods to integrate storage virtualization in a storage controller

Systems and methods for storage allocation in provisioning of virtual machines

Migration of a guest from one server to another

Secure virtual tape management system with balanced storage and multi-mirror options

Computer system and method for performing failure detecting processing for a logical path

ERROR CODE HANDLING IN A STORAGE SUBSYSTEM

Virtual disk drive system and method

Offsite management using disk based tape library and vault system

SERIAL ATTACHED SCSI (SAS) GRID STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THEREOF

Virtual disk management program, storage device management program, multinode storage system, and virtual disk managing method

Computer system and a method for managing logical volumes

Flexible remote data mirroring

DATA STORAGE APPARATUS

Memory device upgrade

LUN masking/mapping in a SR-IOV enabled SAS adapter

Systems and methods for transferring data in a block-level storage operation

Management of recycling bin for thinly-provisioned logical volumes

Computer system, data migration monitoring method and data migration monitoring program

Storage system, storage apparatus, and remote copy method for storage apparatus in middle of plural storage apparatuses

Storage system, data protection method and management computer, including arrangement for data replication between storage devices

Remote management of storage controllers

Content access to virtual machine resource

Mapping of logical volumes to host clusters

Providing executing programs with access to stored block data of others

Method and system for cascaded flashcopy zoning and algorithm and/or computer program code and method implementing the same

Computer system and data sharing method

Efficient transfer of deduplicated data

Method and system for transformation of logical data objects for storage

Managing access of multiple executing programs to non-local block data storage

VIRTUALIZING SWITCH AND COMPUTER SYSTEM

Storage system control method

Device, system and method of accessing data stored in a memory

Storage apparatus, memory area managing method thereof, and flash memory package

Transport control channel program chain linked branching

Remote copy system and remote site power saving method

Storage subsystem and method of executing commands by controller

METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CUSTOMIZED RESPONSE FROM A DISK ARRAY

Storage device and control method thereof

Method for allocating logical unit inside storage system to logical volume and storage controller

Block based access to a dispersed data storage network

Using a control policy to implement power saving features

STORAGE CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

STORAGE SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM, AND STORAGE DEVICE

STORAGE SYSTEM, COPY CONTROL METHOD OF A STORAGE SYSTEM, AND COPY CONTROL UNIT OF A STORAGE SYSTEM

Method for storing data as well as a transponder, a read/write-device, a computer readable medium including a program element and such a program element adapted to perform this method

Method and system for using shared memory with optimized data flow to improve input/output throughout and latency

Method and system for transformation of logical data objects for storage

Transparent Intellectual Network Storage Device

Methods, systems and programs for partitioned storage resources and services in dynamically reorganized storage platforms

Method and system for image management in a computing system

Management method and a management system for volume

Performance of binary bulk IO operations on virtual disks by interleaving

Data accessing method for flash memory storage device having data perturbation module, and storage system and controller using the same

Fiber channel connection storage controller

Computer system, management method, and management computer for managing data archiving storage extents based on server performance management information and storage utilization information

Advertisement forwarding storage and retrieval network

Media aware distributed data layout

Storage system

Storage system for sending an access request from a host to a storage subsystem

Distributed indexing system for data storage

Security method and system for storage subsystem

Cluster shared volumes

Method and system for transformation of logical data objects for storage

Command processing apparatus, method and integrated circuit apparatus

Data Replication method and apparatus

Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage

METHOD FOR IMPROVING DATA WRITING SPEED OF A DISKLESS COMPUTER

Adaptive data throttling for storage controllers

Dynamic write balancing in a data storage system

System and method for achieving high performance data flow among user space processes in storage system

Computer program and method for balancing processing load in storage system, and apparatus for managing storage devices

Data storage resource allocation by employing dynamic methods and blacklisting resource request pools

Data storage resource allocation by performing abbreviated resource checks based on relative chances of failure of the data storage resources to determine whether data storage requests would fail

INTERFACE FOR USING DESIRED STATE COMMANDS ON A COPY SERVICES MANGEMENT SYSTEM

COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING STORAGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD,AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS

Storage area dynamic assignment method

Program, apparatus and method for managing data allocation of distributed storage system including storage nodes

System for automatically configuring a storage array

Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage

Space efficient de-allocation for cascade/multiple target flash copy cleaning

Distributed disk cache system and distributed disk cache method

Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage

Participating in cloud as totally stubby edge

Computing system and method of changing I/O configuration thereof

Method and apparatus for frame redirection in a storage area network environment

Flexible remote data mirroring

Modular engineering system

Automatic detection and reconfiguration of devices

Maintaining information of a relationship of target volumes comprising logical copies of a source volume

Snapshot preserved data cloning

Snapshot storage and management system with indexing and user interface

Virtualizing storage for WPAR clients using node port ID virtualization

Allocating clusters to storage partitions in a storage system

Configuration management apparatus and method

Methods of providing access to I/O devices

Method for managing storage system

Method and system for transformation of logical data objects for storage

Method and system for transformation of logical data objects for storage

Virtual disk drive system and method

Computer system, management computer and storage system, and storage area allocation amount controlling method

Reserve Pool Management in Virtualized Storage Systems

Partitioning of a multiple logic-unit-number SCSI target

Data copying method

Ranking and prioritizing point in time snapshots

Offloading storage operations to storage hardware using a switch

Method and apparatus for dissolving hot spots in storage systems

Signature Based Method for Sending Packets to Remote Systems

Integrated remote replication in hierarchical storage systems

Managing server, pool adding method and computer system

Virtual path storage system and control method for the same

Storage controller, and method operative to relocate logical storage devices based on times and locations specified in a relocating plan

STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

DATA DELIVERY SYSTEMS

Disk control unit and storage system

Storage apparatus, disk controller, and command issue control method

Use of RDMA to access non-volatile solid-state memory in a network storage system

Stabilization of host to storage subsystem ownership

Computer system, management server and configuration information acquisition method

Electronic apparatus and content data providing method

Method and apparatus for I/O priority control in storage systems

Storage system and method of managing a storage system using a management apparatus

System and method for removing a storage server in a distributed column chunk data store

Storage system, storage extent release method and storage apparatus

Client authentication during network boot

Storage system

Data storage systems, methods and networks having a snapshot efficient block map

Free space utilization in tiered storage systems

Apparatus and method for reallocating logical to physical disk devices using a storage controller with access frequency and sequential access ratio calculations and display

Storage system, data processing method and storage apparatus

Storage system of storage hierarchy devices and a method of controlling storage hierarchy devices based on a user policy of I/O performance and power consumption

Management apparatus, storage apparatus and information processing system

Storage virtualization system with dynamic allocation of physical storage space

Storage device with instructions for performing methods of processing I/O requests

STORAGE CONTROLLING UNIT

Load balanced storage provisioning

Peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods

Network storage server with integrated encryption, compression and deduplication capability

Method and system for managing inactive snapshot blocks

STORAGE SYSTEM, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF ESTABLISHING VOLUME ATTRIBUTE

Remote virtual placeholder configuration for distributed input/output modules

Method and system for accessing a storage system with multiple file systems

METHOD FOR IMPROVING ACCESS EFFICIENCY OF SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE STORAGE DEVICE

Switch apparatus

Coordinated remote and local machine configuration

Recording medium storing data allocation control program, data allocation control device, data allocation control method, and multi-node storage-system

Storage system comprising plurality of storage system modules

Method and apparatus for HBA migration

Virtual array site configuration

Storage control method for managing access environment enabling host to access data

Methods and systems for improved throughput performance in a distributed data de-duplication environment

On-demand virtual storage capacity

STORAGE SERVER IMPLEMENTED BY INTERNET SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEMS INTERFACE IN LINUX SYSTEM