Nutanix Assigned Patent

Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,549,518) developed by Mohit Aron, Los Altos, CA, Brent Chun, Monrovia, CA, and Chaitanya Venkata Krishna Bayapuneni, Santa Clara, CA, for a “method and system for implementing a maintenanece service for managing I/O and storage for virtualization environment.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed is an approach for overseeing the overall state of a virtual storage system, and for taking actions as necessary to manage the health and efficient performance of that system. A curator entity is provided on a distributed basis to manage and perform these functions. A master curator manages this workload that is performed by multiple slave curators. MapReduce operations are performed to implement the curator workload. Periodically, the master curator coordinates a full scan of all the metadata in the system using three MapReduce operations. Partial scans may also be run using a single MapReduce operation.”

The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2011 (13/207,365).