HP Assigned Patent

Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP, Houston, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,261,018) developed by Sridhar Balachandriah, Satish Kumar Mopur, and Duvvuri Rama Kiron, Karnataka, India, for "managing data storage systems."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product for managing data storage systems. The data storage system being coupled to a volume storage pool as data storage resource, the data storage system presenting at least one virtual volume as a storage resource to a host device, the method for managing the data storage system comprising collecting the volume storage pool occupancy and the virtual volume consumption; trending the volume storage pool and the virtual volumes consumption; forecasting the volume storage pool occupancy and virtual volume consumption; and recommending at least one action based on the forecasted values of storage pool occupancy data and virtual volume consumption data. The method may further comprise detecting a rapid increase or surge in the volume storage pool occupancy data."

The patent application was filed on July 11, 2009 (12/501,410).