US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on March 24 for "Warm migrations for virtual machines in a cloud computing environment" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,485, issued on March 24, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Warm migrations for virtual machines in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Abraham Massry (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of "warm" migrating a virtual machine (VM) on a source host to a target virtual machine on a destination host. The method begins by mirroring contents of disk onto a target disk associated with the target VM. Transfer of the RAM contents is then initiated. Unlike live migration strategies where data transfer occurs at a high rate, the RAM contents are transferred at a low transfer rate. Wh...