Inventor
SPEAR GAIL A
US49 patents
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IBM
37 patentsUS7188272B2Mar 6, 2007
Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC system
IBM66 citations98
US7278049B2Oct 2, 2007
Method, system, and program for recovery from a failure in an asynchronous data copying system
IBM60 citations97
US5530829AJun 25, 1996
Track and record mode caching scheme for a storage system employing a scatter index table with pointer and a track directory
IBM62 citations94
US9323462B2Apr 26, 2016
File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage environment
IBM14 citations93
US7818522B2Oct 19, 2010
Apparatus, system, and method for incremental resynchronization in a data storage system
IBM21 citations92
US7610318B2Oct 27, 2009
Autonomic infrastructure enablement for point in time copy consistency
IBM24 citations92
US7512835B2Mar 31, 2009
Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC system
IBM35 citations92
US5235690AAug 10, 1993
Method for operating a cached peripheral data storage subsystem including a step of subsetting the data transfer into subsets of data records
IBM53 citations92
US9671977B2Jun 6, 2017
Handling data block migration to efficiently utilize higher performance tiers in a multi-tier storage environment
IBM5 citations84
US9396121B2Jul 19, 2016
Managing sequentiality of tracks for asynchronous PPRC tracks on secondary
IBM5 citations84
US9158471B2Oct 13, 2015
Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third storage sites
IBM5 citations84
US9063997B2Jun 23, 2015
Asynchronous pausing of the formation of consistency groups
IBM5 citations84
US9052833B2Jun 9, 2015
Protection of former primary volumes in a synchronous replication relationship
IBM14 citations84
US7523207B2Apr 21, 2009
Configuration of fibre channel SAN path
IBM8 citations81
US10664177B2May 26, 2020
Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third storage sites
IBM2 citations73
US9678686B2Jun 13, 2017
Managing sequentiality of tracks for asynchronous PPRC tracks on secondary
IBM2 citations73
US9613040B2Apr 4, 2017
File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage environment
IBM3 citations73
US10133643B2Nov 20, 2018
Resynchronizing to a first storage system after a failover to a second storage system mirroring the first storage system
IBM2 citations70
US7873744B2Jan 18, 2011
Configuration of fibre channel SAN path
IBM6 citations70
US9298373B2Mar 29, 2016
Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered storage environment
IBM4 citations69
US10346081B2Jul 9, 2019
Handling data block migration to efficiently utilize higher performance tiers in a multi-tier storage environment
IBM1 citations63
US9317383B2Apr 19, 2016
Communication of conditions at a primary storage controller to a host
IBM2 citations63
US9264493B2Feb 16, 2016
Asynchronous pausing of the formation of consistency groups
IBM2 citations63
US9213752B2Dec 15, 2015
Asynchronous pausing of the formation of consistency groups
IBM1 citations60
US7539892B2May 26, 2009
Enhanced resynchronization in a storage-based mirroring system having different storage geometries
IBM5 citations60
US7493617B2Feb 17, 2009
Method of maintaining task sequence within a task domain across error recovery
IBM2 citations60
US10936447B2Mar 2, 2021
Resynchronizing to a first storage system after a failover to a second storage system mirroring the first storage system
IBM0 citations59
US9880738B2Jan 30, 2018
Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered storage environment
IBM1 citations59
US9857997B2Jan 2, 2018
Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third storage sites
IBM0 citations52
US9613039B2Apr 4, 2017
File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage environment
IBM0 citations52
US9342420B2May 17, 2016
Communication of conditions at a primary storage controller to a host
IBM0 citations52
US9069712B2Jun 30, 2015
Communication of conditions at a primary storage controller to a host
IBM0 citations52
US10671284B2Jun 2, 2020
Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered storage environment
IBM0 citations48
US10146783B2Dec 4, 2018
Using file element accesses to select file elements in a file system to defragment
IBM0 citations42
US9252922B2Feb 2, 2016
System and method for improved error response in data mirroring
IBM0 citations42
US10613771B2Apr 7, 2020
Processing a write of records to maintain atomicity for writing a defined group of records to multiple tracks
IBM0 citations40
US10606719B2Mar 31, 2020
Mirroring writes of records to maintain atomicity for writing a defined group of records to multiple tracks
IBM0 citations40
BENHASE MICHAEL T
5 patentsUS8266325B2Sep 11, 2012
Compression on thin provisioned volumes using extent based mapping
BENHASE MICHAEL T6 citations84
US8667180B2Mar 4, 2014
Compression on thin provisioned volumes using extent based mapping
BENHASE MICHAEL T4 citations73
US9195403B2Nov 24, 2015
Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third storage sites
BENHASE MICHAEL T1 citations63
US8819291B2Aug 26, 2014
Compression on thin provisioned volumes using extent based mapping
BENHASE MICHAEL T2 citations63
US8433870B2Apr 30, 2013
Multiple incremental virtual copies
BENHASE MICHAEL T2 citations63