Inventor

MCBRIDE GREGORY EDWARD

US51 patents

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MCBRIDE GREGORY EDWARD

IBM

Method, system and program for maintaining data consistency among updates across groups of storage areas using update times

System and method for dynamically resynchronizing backup data

Dynamic change management in an extended remote copy operation

Coordinating remote copy status changes across multiple logical sessions to maintain consistency

Multi-environment data consistency

Interface error detection and isolation in a direct access storage device DASD system

Forming consistency groups using self-describing record sets for remote data duplexing

Adjusting timestamps to preserve update timing information for cached data objects

Extended remote copying system for reporting both active and idle conditions wherein the idle condition indicates no updates to the system for a predetermined time period

Management of fixed pages in memory for input/output operations

Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment

Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times

System and method for dynamically resynchronizing backup data

Adaptive multitasking for dataset storage

Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship

Managing failures in mirrored systems

Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologies

Maintaining consistency for remote copy using virtualization

Checking and repairing a network configuration

Application transparent autonomic availability on a storage area network aware file system

Method, system, and program for maintaining data in a distributed computing environment for processing transaction requests

Consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment

Self-configuration of source-to-target mapping

Method for autonomic data caching and copying on a storage area network aware file system using copy services

Article of manufacture and system for autonomic data caching and copying on a storage area network aware file system using copy services

Application transparent autonomic availability on a storage area network aware file system

Maintaining consistency for remote copy using virtualization

Replication engine communicating with a splitter to split writes between a storage controller and replication engine

Checking and repairing a network configuration

Checking and repairing a network configuration

Data protection in storage systems

Using a heartbeat signal to maintain data consistency for writes to source storage copied to target storage

Apparatus, system, and method for initializing a synchronized remote database

Method, system, and program for improved device blocking and suspension

Managing the copying of writes from primary storages to secondary storages across different networks

Fine granularity read access to generational safeguarded copy data

Generational access to safeguarded copy source volumes

Method for maintaining data in a distributed computing environment for processing transaction requests

Method for application transparent autonomic data replication improving access performance for a storage area network aware file system

System, apparatus, and method for automatic copy function selection

Copying writes from primary storages to secondary storages across different networks

BOYD KENNETH WAYNE

Managing consistency groups using heterogeneous replication engines

Managing consistency groups using heterogeneous replication engines

BARTFAI ROBERT FRANCIS

Splitting writes between a storage controller and replication engine

Splitting writes between a storage controller and replication engine

BEARDSLEY BRENT CAMERON

Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment

MCBRIDE GREGORY EDWARD

Transparent autonomic data replication improving access performance for a storage area network aware file system

SCHLOMER TODD BENJAMIN

Using a heartbeat signal to maintain data consistency for writes to source storage copied to target storage

MAKANSI TAREK

System and article of manufacture for maintaining data in a distributed computing environment for processing transaction requests

BLEA DONALD REYNOLD

Consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment