US Patent Issued to DataDirect Networks on April 7 for "Method to automatically deploy software defined storage" (American, Georgian, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,554, issued on April 7, was assigned to DataDirect Networks Inc. (Chatsworth, Calif.).

"Method to automatically deploy software defined storage" was invented by William W. Owen (Marana, Ariz.), Roman Strashkin (Krasnodar, Russia), Michael Anderson (Warren, Ore.), Boris Osher (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Anton Skriptsov (Tbilisi, Georgia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic deployment of software defined storage (SDS) executes bootstrap and site configuration generation phases. The bootstrap phase follows a command for nodes to start a bootstrap process with installation of prerequisite packages, and setting system parameters based o...