US Patent Issued to VMware on March 17 for "Elastic external storage for diskless hosts in a cloud" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,883, issued on March 17, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Elastic external storage for diskless hosts in a cloud" was invented by Piyush Hasmukh Parmar (Pune, India), Amrita Shivananda Hegde (Siddapura, India) and Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of managing external storage for a software-defined data center (SDDC) executing in a cloud is described. The method includes receiving, at a storage manager from the SDDC, requests to consume capacity of the external storage, the external storage allocated for the SDDC according to a cloud subscription; determining, by th...