US Patent Issued to Hitachi Vantara on Oct. 20 for "Management apparatus for storage system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,622, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Management apparatus for storage system" was invented by Mitsuo Hayasaka (Tokyo) and Masanori Takata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus that manages a storage system includes a processor, and a storage device that stores a backup management model. The backup management model includes information of a snapshot generation of a volume, which is stored in a restoration destination storage system, and information of a snapshot generation of the volume, which is stored in a cloud storage system. The processor is configured to select a restorati...