US Patent Issued to NETAPP on May 26 for "Mediator assisted switchover between clusters" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,179, issued on May 26, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mediator assisted switchover between clusters" was invented by Sasidharan Krishnan (Fremont, Calif.), Kalaivani Arumugham (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Preksha Bansal (San Jose, Calif.), Vijay Kumar Chakravarthy Ekkaladevi (Dublin, Calif.) and Ryan Edward Bartlett (Harmony, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for metadata management for enabling automated switchover in accordance with a configuration of storage solution that expresses a preference for either maintaining availability (e.g., a non-zero RPO mode) of the storage solution or avoiding data...