Data storage system

Method for expanding capacity of replication volume

Method and apparatus for transformation of storage virtualization schemes

Method and structure for adapting a storage virtualization scheme using transformations

Write caching random data and sequential data simultaneously

Intelligent data storage and processing using fpga devices

Storage area allocating apparatus, storage area allocating method, and computer product

Method and a computer for storage area management

Method of Controlling Storage Device Controlling Apparatus, and Storage Device Controlling Apparatus

Computer system having an expansion device for virtualizing a migration source logical unit

Storage control apparatus for selecting storage media based on a user-specified performance requirement

SECURE STORAGE OF DATA IN A NETWORK

Write Sharing of Read-Only Data Storage Volumes

Storage system and storage control method for the same

Data reallocation among storage systems

Internet SCSI communication via UNDI services

Maintaining commonly named client-specific file content in hard disk drive emulation

Pre-allocation and hierarchical mapping of data blocks distributed from a first processor to a second processor for use in a file system

Data-migration method

Systems and methods for migrating components in a hierarchical storage network

Storage controller and data management method

Distributed maintenance of snapshot copies by a primary processor managing metadata and a secondary processor providing read-write access to a production dataset

Storage resource management system, method, and computer for dividing volumes based on priority, necessary capacity and volume characteristics

Synchronization of a virtual storage system and an actual storage system

Data duplication control method

Storage system, remote copy and management method therefor

Storage system and method for controlling storage system

Data managed storage system for regulatory compliance

Apparatus and method for preventing double allocation, and medium for recording its allocation program

Computer system, management computer, storage device and volume allocation confirmation method

Content-based, compression-enhancing routing in distributed, differential electronic-data storage systems

Storage system, path management method and path management device

Computer system using disk controller and operating service thereof

Storage area dynamic assignment method

Method, device and program for managing volume

Storage system and control method for managing use of physical storage areas

Storage system and data storage method

Storage system and storage system data migration method

Storage system, data management apparatus and management method thereof

Computer system for managing data among virtual storage systems

Storage system

System managing a plurality of virtual volumes and a virtual volume management method for the system

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING DATA BY FILE-SYSTEM OFFLOADING

Data access management system as well as a method for data access and data management for a computer system

METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SERVICE USING POLICY-BASED AUTONOMIC DATA MANAGEMENT

System and method for optimizing multi-pathing support in a distributed storage system environment

Storage system controlling power supply module and fan

Capacity expansion volume migration method

Efficient computation of sketches

Apparatus for performing storage virtualization

Volume providing system and method

Storage system for queuing I/O commands and control method therefor

Remote mirroring method between tiered storage systems

Method and system for executing directory-basis migration in a global name space

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

Virtual disk drive system and method

Virtual disk drive system and method

Virtual disk drive system and method

Storage system and storage area allocation method configuring pool areas each including logical volumes having identical allocation unit size

Storage apparatus

Storage system with virtual allocation and virtual relocation of volumes

Method and system for implementing hierarchical permission maps in a layered volume graph

Storage system and method for restricting access to virtual memory area by management host, and program for executing the same

System environment setting support program, system environment setting support method, and system environment setting support apparatus

Storage system and power source control method thereof, storage apparatus and data processing method

Architecture for providing block-level storage access over a computer network

System and method for intelligent provisioning of storage across a plurality of storage systems

Storage cluster system, data processing method, and program

Disk controller and controlling method of the same

Storage system, storage extent release method and storage apparatus

Method and apparatus for reducing the amount of data in a storage system

Storage control system

Methods and systems of managing I/O operations in data storage systems

Time budgeting by determining status of a streaming buffer during an autonomous non-data transfer operations in drive units

Method and apparatus for auto-protocol discrimination between fibre channel, SAS and SATA devices

Storage apparatus and method for processing the same

Storage system issuing optimum I/O command to allocation-on-use enabled volume and controlling method therefor

Computer system for controlling allocation of physical links and method thereof

Storage system, data migration method and server apparatus

Methods and systems for implementing shared disk array management functions

Optimization method for storage region allocation, and management computer for implementing the same

Initiating and using information used for a host, control unit, and logical device connections

Methods and apparatus for selecting a virtualization engine

Methods and systems for hierarchical management of distributed data

Apparatus and method for using storage domains for controlling data in storage area networks

Apparatus, system, and method for dynamically determining a set of storage area network components for performance monitoring

System and method for zero copy block protocol write operations

Data-state-describing data structures

Server and method for automatically recognizing on another host computer data recognizable on a host computer

Storage control device, and data migration method using storage control device

InfiniBand boot bridge with fibre channel target

Method of maximizing the information access rate from/to storage units in wired/wireless networks

Method and apparatus for implementing extensible network-attached secondary storage

Storage system having a channel control function using a plurality of processors

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

Storage control apparatus and method thereof

Systems and methods for migrating components in a hierarchical storage network

Computer system for copying data between virtual storage areas

Systems and methods for resynchronizing information

Storage management method and storage management system

Storage controller

Virtualization controller and data transfer control method

Apparatus and methods for controlling a data tapping session in a storage area network

Storage area network port based data transfer acceleration

Storage control device and storage system

Systems and methods for sharing media in a computer network

DATA REPLICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS

PULL DATA REPLICATION MODEL

Systems for managing of system metadata and methods for recovery from an inconsistent copy set

System and method for mirroring data

Virtual disk drive system and method

System and method for the automated processing of physical objects

Virtual path storage system and control method for the same

Storage system, data processing method and storage apparatus

Efficient data management in a cluster file system

STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE

Conversion management device and conversion management method for a storage virtualization system

System and method for managing disk space in a thin-provisioned storage subsystem

Method and apparatus for multistage volume locking

Storage apparatus and control method thereof

Data migration method for disk apparatus

Storage system and storage control apparatuses with compression and load balancing

Transparent intellectual network storage device

Fiber channel switch and computer system using the same

Computer system, management computer, and volume allocation change method of management computer

Storage device controller

Storage system that is connected to external storage

SAN/NAS integrated storage system

Flexible remote data mirroring

Self-optimizing network attached storage for multiple geographic locations

Generating storage system commands

Virtualization controller and data transfer control method

Storage system

Volume management method and apparatus

Data transfer apparatus, storage device control apparatus and control method using storage device control apparatus

Data storage system and control apparatus with a switch unit connected to a plurality of first channel adapter and modules wherein mirroring is performed

Method for migrating objects in content management systems through exploitation of file properties, temporal locality, and spatial locality

Snapshot format conversion method and apparatus

Method and apparatus for accessing home storage or internet storage

Remote storage disk control device with function to transfer commands to remote storage devices

Computer system and storage virtualizer

Method and apparatus for managing direct I/O to storage systems in virtualization

Apparatus, system, and method for automatically verifying access to a multipathed target at boot time

Apparatus, system and method incorporating virtualization for data storage

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

Storage controller, and method of controlling storage controller to improve the reliability of the storage controller

System and method for performing replication copy storage operations

Data communication system, device, and method

Fibre channel traffic redirect scheme using access control lists

Offsite management using disk based tape library and vault system

Method and apparatus for organizing nodes in a network

Dynamic storage device pooling in a computer system

Data migration method and system

Using load balancing to assign paths to hosts in a network

System and method for identifying a removable storage device

Storage system and management method thereof

Storage system having a plurality of interfaces

Storage system and load balancing method thereof

Storage system

Systems and method for simple scale-out storage clusters

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

Storage device management method, system and program

Remote copy storage device system and a remote copy method to prevent overload of communication lines in system using a plurality of remote storage sites

Method for rearranging a logical volume

Storage system and data migration method

Selecting storage clusters to use to access storage

System and method for record retention date in a write once read many storage system

System, method and apparatus for multiple-protocol-accessible OSD storage subsystem

Storage configuration changing apparatus and method thereof

Data processing system, storage apparatus and management console

Method and apparatus for data relocation between storage subsystems

Method for defragmenting of virtual volumes in a storage area network (SAN)

Buffer control system and method for a memory system having outstanding read and write request buffers

Storage control system

Management computer for calculating effective total volume of storage apparatus

Storage system with automated resources allocation

Storage system and storage control method

Virtual volume control method involving device stop

Method of improving efficiency of capacity of volume used for copy function and apparatus thereof

SCSI-based storage area network having a SCSI router that routes traffic between SCSI and IP networks

Method for proactive impact analysis of policy-based storage systems

Storage management system and method

Systems, methods and apparatus for creating stable disk images

Storage having a logical partitioning capability and systems which include the storage

Management of number of disk groups that can be activated in storage device

Apparatus, system, and method for data migration

Method of inheriting information identifying virtual volume and storage system using the same

Data-migration method

Virtual storage system control apparatus, virtual storage system control program and virtual storage system control method

Load balancing system and method

Storage system with designated CPU cores processing transactions across storage nodes

Techniques for improving mirroring operations implemented in storage area networks and network based virtualization

System, method and program for managing storage

Storage system and method using interface control devices of different types

Intelligent logical unit provisioning

Storage area network file system

Storage system and method of controlling storage system

System and method for creating and maintaining a logical serial attached SCSI communication channel among a plurality of storage systems

Storage system

Direct access storage system with combined block interface and file interface access

Apparatus, system, and method for mapping a storage environment

Technique for improving scalability and portability of a storage management system

Method of controlling total disk usage amount in virtualized and unified network storage system

Peer-to-peer auction based data distribution

Maximizing storage system throughput by measuring system performance metrics

Software agent-based architecture for data relocation

System and method for deploying information handling system images through fibre channel

Computer system managing an access to a storage system

Secure data scrubbing

Method for resource management in a logically partitioned storage system

Computer system having file management function, storage apparatus and file management method

Data management method in storage pool and virtual volume in DKC

Automatic allocation of volumes in storage area networks

Automated logical unit creation and assignment for storage networks

Method and system for governing access to storage device on SAN

Centralized storage management method

Disk array device including a system LU for storing control information in the disk array and backup LU for backing up the control information and controlling method thereof

Method of saving power consumed by a storage system

Method and system for storage access management in IP network

Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing virtual disk service (VDS) hints based storage

Storage subsystem access prioritization by system process and foreground application identification

Computer-readable recording medium with system managing program recorded therein, system managing method and system managing apparatus

Method for distributing data input/output load

Programmable routing for frame-packet based frame processing

EFFICIENT ACCUMULATION OF PERFORMANCE STATISTICS IN A MULTI-PORT NETWORK

Storage system and setting method for storage configuration information

Systems and methods for temporarily transferring use of portions of partitioned memory between host computers

Memory allocation in a multi-node computer

Data migration and copying in a storage system with dynamically expansible volumes

Monitoring performance of a storage area network

Instant copy of data through pointers interchanging

Instant copy of data in a cache memory via an atomic command

Logical volume transfer method and storage network system

Data copying method and apparatus in a thin provisioned system

Storage system and control method thereof for uniformly managing the operation authority of a disk array system

System for controlling spinning of disk

Apparatus, system and method for making endurance of storage media

Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing data path optimization

Managing serial attached small computer systems interface communications

Apparatus, system, and method for dynamically allocating and adjusting meta-data repository resources for handling concurrent I/O requests to a meta-data repository

Network-attachable, file-accessible storage drive

System and method for providing, by a plurality of schedulers, differentiated service to consumers of distributed resources

Data storage system using segmentable virtual volumes

Method of controlling storage device controlling apparatus, and storage device controlling apparatus

System and method for storing storage operating system data in switch ports

Method for managing volume groups considering storage tiers

Storage unit and disk control method

Power management in a distributed file system

System and method for optimized lun masking

Storage management system and method using performance values to obtain optimal input/output paths within a storage network

Computer system and storage area allocation method

Control method of device in storage system for virtualization

Storage control system and storage controller

Storage subsystem and performance tuning method

Storage path control method

BLOCK SNAPSHOTS OVER iSCSI

Storage system and storage system control method in which storage areas can be added as needed

Method for out of user space I/O with server authentication

Data migration method

Storage system capable of relocating data

Method and apparatus implementing virtualization for data migration with the efficient use of old assets

Storage system and control method thereof, and computer program product

Storage system, storage device, and control method thereof

Data management system and method

Storage system and storage management method

Storage system and storage control method comprising router and switch in communication with RAID modules

Smart scalable storage switch architecture

High performance storage access environment

Stable, minimal skew resource flow control technique in large scale enterprise storage systems

Storage system

Apparatus, system, and method for modifying data storage configuration

Information processing method and system

Storage system and storage control method without requiring formatting of storage device

Method for rebalancing free disk space among network storages virtualized into a single file system view

Storage system

Method of collecting and storing storage network performance information, computer system, and program

Data encryption in a network memory architecture for providing data based on local accessibility

Storage system and storage control method

Storage system construction managing device and construction management method

Combined local and network storage interface

Storage device and method of setting configuration information of same

Data storage distribution and retrieval

Windowing external block translations

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for reconfiguring a storage area network to support the execution of an application automatically upon execution of the application

Storage system and storage control method for access exclusion control of each storage area unit comprising storage area of storage device

Storage system, storage access restriction method and computer program product

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

Storage control system and method which converts file level data into block level data which is stored at different destinations based on metadata of files being managed

Disk array device, method for controlling the disk array device and storage system

Combined local and network storage interface

Storage system, formatting method and computer program to enable high speed physical formatting

Method for automatically relating components of a storage area network in a volume container

Computer program and method for managing resources in a distributed storage system

Logical unit security for clustered storage area networks

Method for creating a large-scale storage array system out of multiple mid-range storage arrays

Management of storage resource devices

Remote copy system

Disk-array device having storage-device recognition and identification of a storage area network link environment

Method for consistent copying of storage volumes

Storage system, method of controlling storage system, and storage device