US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on March 17 for "Configuring a quorum component on network storage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,874, issued on March 17, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configuring a quorum component on network storage" was invented by Jonathan De La Torre (Tracy, Calif.), Kevin Tang (Granite Bay, Calif.), Dan Swartz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dang Luong (San Jose, Calif.) and Paul Romero (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computing device of a first network storage receives a virtual machine image and executable instructions for creating a quorum component for a second network storage and a third network storage that replicate data. The computing device implements the virtual machi...