US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Jan. 13 for "Storage system and method for replication based on load prediction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,176, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system and method for replication based on load prediction" was invented by Naoya Okada (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The influence of new deployment of volumes on the performance is predicted with accuracy in a storage system that includes a main site holding a primary volume and a sub-site holding a secondary volume and a journal volume. The main site has one or multiple nodes. The sub-site has multiple nodes. In creating a new secondary volume and a new journal volume in the sub-si...