US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 24 for "System and method for managing data retention in distributed systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,178, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for managing data retention in distributed systems" was invented by Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran (Austin, Texas) and Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing data of pods are disclosed. To manage the data of pods, volumes in which the data used by the pods is stored may be migrated over time based on the likelihood of the data being used in the future. During decommissioning of pods, data from the volumes may be automatically migrated to different locations. Additionally, diffe...