US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Nov. 3 for "Volume provisioning in a distributed storage system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,305, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Volume provisioning in a distributed storage system" was invented by Aditya Kulkarni (Fremont, Calif.) and Ganesh Sangle (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for provisioning volumes in a distributed storage system comprises: receiving a volume provision request to allocate data storage space for a storage volume on a storage node cluster comprising a plurality of storage nodes; determining, in response to the volume provision request, locations of replicas of other storage volumes on the plurality of storage nodes; determin...