NetApp Assigned Patent
Background encryption of disks in large cluster
By Jean Jacques Maleval | June 1, 2012 at 2:56 pmNetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,171,307) developed by Steven Chang, Sunnyvale, CA, for a "background encryption of disks in a large cluster."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides for rekeying a large cluster of storage security appliances which allows more than two of the storage security appliances to proxy a single storage medium while encrypting the storage medium in a manner that is transparent to any attached server. The invention provides a method for synchronizing encryption of the disk among a large cluster of storage security appliances, while allowing all of the storage security appliances involved to access the storage device being rekeyed in a secure fashion."
The patent application was filed on May 26, 2006 (11/420,723).
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