Datera Assigned Patent
Data placement, movement, and management into cloud
By Francis Pelletier | February 22, 2021 at 2:31 pmDatera, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,904,068) developed by Mittal, Shailesh, Krishnamurthy, Raghu, Frenkel, Nir, Santa Clara, CA, and Sharma, Ayush, Folsom, CA, for “system and method to provide seamless data placement, data movement, and data management into cloud.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Disclosed is a method and system to provide seamless data placement, data movement, and data management into the cloud. The system includes a processor, and a memory. The memory stores machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to extend the local data fabric and the services to the cloud providers by utilizing a cloud abstraction layer module. The cloud providers act as remote endpoints configured with a source unit. The process is further configured to implement a data migration in which a data migration module migrates data from the source unit to the cloud providers, and performs a plurality of management activities through an interaction between a control plane and a management module. Then the processor is configured to create a cloud tenant in the source unit to map the cloud providers. The data is migrated to the cloud provider through a plurality of mechanisms selected from at least one of instantiating an application instance into a cloud tenant attached to the cloud provider, and utilizing a plurality of remote storage pools which includes a plurality of remote endpoints as members.”
The patent application was filed on January 12, 2018 (15/869,299).