US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 9 for "Tiering-aware replication for multiple-tier storage systems" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,775, issued on June 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Tiering-aware replication for multiple-tier storage systems" was invented by Weibing Zhang (Beijing), Lei Gao (Beijing) and Chen Gong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to determine, for a given portion of data to be replicated from a first multiple-tier storage system to a second multiple-tier storage system, tiering information characterizing a given storage tier of the first storage system in which the given portion of data is stored. The at least one processing device is also configure...