Gregory Edward McBride

COORDINATING ESTABLISHMENT OF SOURCE AND TARGET COPY RELATIONSHIPS ON PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SERVERS

FINE GRANULARITY READ ACCESS TO GENERATIONAL SAFEGUARDED COPY DATA

Generational access to safeguarded copy source volumes

Using a heartbeat signal to maintain data consistency for writes to source storage copied to target storage

Consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment

Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment

Managing consistency groups using heterogeneous replication engines

Managing consistency groups using heterogeneous replication engines

Replication engine communicating with a splitter to split writes between a storage controller and replication engine

Splitting writes between a storage controller and replication engine

Copying writes from primary storages to secondary storages across different networks

Managing the copying of writes from primary storages to secondary storages across different networks

Checking and repairing a network configuration

Checking and repairing a network configuration

Application transparent autonomic availability on a storage area network aware file system

Apparatus, system, and method for initializing a synchronized remote database

APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A REMOTE DATABASE

Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment

Using a heartbeat signal to maintain data consistency for writes to source storage copied to target storage

Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times

Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship

Consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment

Managing failures in mirrored systems

Data protection in storage systems

Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologies

Application transparent autonomic availability on a storage area network aware file system