ProphetStor Assigned Patent
Optimizing storage configuration for future demand
By Francis Pelletier | September 19, 2018 at 2:27 pmProphetStor Data Services, Inc., Taichung, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,067,704) developed by Huang, Ming Jen, Huang, Chun Fang, Shih, Tsung Ming, and Chen, Wen Shyen, Taichung, Taiwan, for a “method for optimizing storage configuration for future demand and system thereof.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for optimizing storage configuration for future demand and a system applying the method are disclosed. The system includes a monitoring module, a storage recording module, a traffic modeling module, a rule-based decision module, and a storage management module. With performance values and utilization values provided from the monitoring module, a traffic status of data access in a particular time in the future can be generated. Then, a storage configuration with the workload requirement according to some rules can be available. The storage configuration is implemented to fulfill the requirement of the traffic status of data access.”
The patent application was filed on October 1, 2014 (14/503,440).