ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,280, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nasuni Corp. (Boston).
"Cloud-native global file system with direct-to-cloud migration" was invented by Daphne Shaw (Newton, Mass.) and Nicholas A. Fisher (Canton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-native global file system to provide primary file storage for enterprise data is augmented to provide "direct-to-cloud" (D2C) migration of a data set. In addition to providing a filer, the service provider configures a direct-to-cloud migration tool executed in association with the hardware of the enterprise filesystem whose data set is being migrated. The migration tool reads the existing...