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| 20080215793 | Method and Apparatus for Management Between Virtualized Machines and Virtualized Storage Systems - To manage physical paths between a server system and a storage system and information about routing between virtual machines and virtual storage systems in an integrated fashion. A computer system of the present invention includes: a computer and a storage system that stores data, in which the computer includes first information for managing the first resource relating to the computer; and the storage system includes second information for managing the second resource provided in the storage system, and in which a relation between the virtual machine and the virtual storage system is defined based on the first information and the second information. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080263277 | Storage device - A storage device is provided with a file I/O interface control device and a plurality of disk pools. The file I/O interface control device sets one of a plurality of storage hierarchies defining storage classes, respectively, for each of LUs within the disk pools, thereby forming a file system in each of the LUs. The file I/O interface control device migrates at least one of the files from one of the LUs to another one of the LUs of an optimal storage class, based on static properties and dynamic properties of each file. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090106388 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - This storage system includes one or more household appliances, a home server storing contents data and management information of the contents data received from the one or more household appliances and pre-set with an unused capacity limit, and an online storage center. When the actual unused capacity in the home server falls below the capacity limit, the home server sends to and stores in the online storage center prescribed contents data and management information of the prescribed contents data among the contents data and management information of the contents data stored in the home server, and deletes the prescribed contents data from the home server while leaving the management information of the prescribed contents data stored in the home server. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090171785 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A home storage (a first storage device) installed in each home is provided with an area for a user to store data (user area) and an area for storing ads (ad area). The first storage device checks interest and favorite information for the user in the user area, and transmits the interest and favorite information at the same time backup is performed in a second storage device at a remote site. The second storage device selects a suitable ad based on the interest and favorite information from the first storage device and transmits the selected ad to the first storage device. The user views the transmitted ad when viewing content in the first storage device. The user's viewing record for the ads is kept as statistical data, and the second storage device compiles the record, charges a sponsor an ad charge, thereby subsidizing the usage charge for the first storage device regardless of online or offline connection. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172046 | ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE SERVICE SYSTEM - The risk of a third party referring to or using backup data without authorization upon restoring such backup data in an HDD recorder is mitigated. First authentication information of a user as the HDD owner and second authentication information of an engineer of a repair plant are registered in an online backup service system. The first authentication information is used when backing up data recorded in the HDD to the online backup service system, and the second authentication information is used when restoring the data backed up to the online backup service system. The data backup processing and data restoration processing are executed only when the authentication information is appropriate. Since the user will directly receive an email from the online backup service system regarding who restored which data at what time, such user will be able to audit the data restoration process independently from the person recovering the data. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172141 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD IN STORAGE SYSTEM - Provided is a storage center including a storage subsystem for storing content data to be used by the user's home server, and a center server for controlling the storage subsystem. The center server aggregates the content recording reservation requests sent from several home servers, obtains content data from a content server and stores the content data in the storage subsystem at a designated recording start time, and notifies the user's home server that the recording reservation is complete. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090216980 | INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage media and a storage area of a storage apparatus are associated, and the storage media is used to manage the contents of the storage apparatus. A storage media for storing files is detachably mounted on an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus is connected to a storage apparatus via the Internet, the storage apparatus stores files corresponding to the files stored in the storage media, the storage media and the storage apparatus authenticate each other via the Internet, and the information processing apparatus reads files from or writes files into the storage media or the storage apparatus on the condition that the foregoing authentication is successful. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100122332 | FILE SERVER FOR TRANSLATING USER IDENTIFIER - A file server including: a first interface coupled to a client computer which manages a client side user identifier used by the client computer to identify a client computer user; a second interface coupled to a first storage storing first file system data and a first file system side user identifier used by the first file system to identify the client computer user, and a second storage storing second file system data and a second file system side user identifier used by the second file system to identify the client computer user; a processor which receives a client computer's first access request to the first file system, obtains a first file system identifier which identifies the first file system and the first file system side user identifier, and translates the first file system side user identifier to a first client side user identifier using the first file system identifier. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100241656 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A file system transfer designation section for transferring the file system matching with file system transfer rules from the first volume of the first storage apparatus to the second volume of the second storage apparatus based on the first file system transfer rules, a file system storage information manager for updating storage information of the file system in accordance with transfer of the file system by the file system transfer designation section, and transmitting the updated file system storage information, and a search information manager for updating search information for searching the files based on a file search request from the client apparatus using the file system storage information sent by the file system storage information manager are provided. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100274826 | METHOD FOR CLIPPING MIGRATION CANDIDATE FILE IN HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The system of the present invention curbs an unnecessary inter-tier file migration and provides an inter-tier file migration that conforms to the utilization state. The hierarchical storage management system respectively migrates a frequently accessed file to the upper Tier, and an infrequently accessed file to the lower Tier. This system carries out inter-tier file migration in conformance with the utilization state. This system provides functions for anchoring a Tier for storage for a specified file, and for not permitting an inter-tier file migration. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100275058 | Method and Apparatus for Management Between Virtualized Machines and Virtualized Storage Systems - To manage physical paths between a server system and a storage system and information about routing between virtual machines and virtual storage systems in an integrated fashion. A computer system of the present invention includes: a computer and a storage system that stores data, in which the computer includes first information for managing the first resource relating to the computer; and the storage system includes second information for managing the second resource provided in the storage system, and in which a relation between the virtual machine and the virtual storage system is defined based on the first information and the second information. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110066666 | FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE SYSTEM - Files stored in a storage system are grouped in a metadata server, and storage servers discretely storing these files are instructed to detect file duplication and to remove duplicate data. The storage servers detect duplicate data by comparing file fragments stored by the storage servers themselves with each other. In a case where duplicate data is detected, the storage servers delete the duplicate data. | 03-17-2011 |
