Jonathan Wayne Peake

Offloading volume space reclamation operations to virtual tape systems

Hybrid storage data migration by selective data removal

Extended logical worm data integrity protection with unique worm identifier in header and database

Using link send and receive information to select one of multiple links to use to transfer data for send and receive operations

Dynamic loading of virtual volume data in a virtual tape server

Method, system, and article of manufacture for returning empty physical volumes to a storage pool based on a threshold and an elapsed time period

Transfer of ownership of a storage object in response to an original owner node becoming available after a period of unavailability

Segmentation of logical volumes and movement of selected segments when a cache storage is unable to store all segments of a logical volume

Efficient elimination of access to data on a writable storage media

Efficient elimination of access to data on a writable storage media

Cache disk storage upgrade

Method and apparatus for recovery of the association of construct definitions with logical volumes in a virtual tape server

Method, system, and program for moving data among storage units

System, method and apparatus for logical volume duplexing in a virtual tape system

Method, system, and program for moving data among storage units

Efficient firmware update for hierarchical data storage systems

Method, system, and article of manufacture for returning physical volumes

Method for borrowing and returning physical volumes

Dynamic loading of virtual volume data in a virtual tape server

Method, system, and article of manufacture for borrowing physical volumes