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DE FOREST MILES A

US48 patents

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DE FOREST MILES A

EMC CORP

Managing host data placed in a container file system on a data storage array having multiple storage tiers

Optimizing data location in data storage arrays

Managing storage space in storage systems

Providing multi-tenancy within a data storage apparatus

Operating system for a non-uniform memory access multiprocessor system

Deduplicating container files

Virtual storage processor failover

Virtual storage processor load balancing

Providing virtual storage processor (VSP) mobility with induced file system format migration

Unified data protection for block and file objects

Performing a non-disruptive software upgrade on physical storage processors having access to virtual storage processors

Unified data services for block and file objects

Unified datapath processing with virtualized storage processors

Automatically creating multiple replication sessions in response to a single replication command entered by a user

Storage management

Leveraging array operations at virtualized storage processor level

Providing mobility to virtual storage processors

File system over fully provisioned volume file in direct mode

Compressing container files

File system inline fine grained tiering

Upper deck file system shrink for directly and thinly provisioned lower deck file system in which upper deck file system is stored in a volume file within lower deck file system where both upper deck file system and lower deck file system resides in storage processor memory

Coordination of file system creation to ensure more deterministic performance characteristics

File system over thinly provisioned volume file in mapped mode

Techniques for performing slice consistency checks

File system snapshots over thinly provisioned volume file in mapped mode

File system snapshots over fully provisioned volume file in direct mode

Using locks of different scopes in a data storage system to optimize performance and complexity

System and method for object management

Scalable distributed slice broker

CHEN XIANGPING

Iterating in parallel for deduplication

Deduplication efficiency

System and method for LUN adjustment

System and method for LUN adjustment

Selecting iteration schemes for deduplication

HAASE DAVID

Managing consistency groups in storage systems

Restoring snapshots to consistency groups of mount points

Optimizing data less writes for restore operations

Resizing snapshot mount points

System and method for interleaving storage

EMC IP HOLDING CO LLC

Storage tiering in replication target based on logical extents

Demand-driven initialization of data storage structures

TAYLOR ALAN L

Managing restore operations using data less writes

System and method for managing IO operations

TAYLOR ALAN LEE

Storage system with dynamic transfer of block file system ownership for load balancing

Lightweight communication channel for control of device driver components

LONG MATTHEW

Iterating for deduplication

DUPREY DENNIS T

Managing replication and reservations

THROOP DEAN D

Systems, methods, and computer readable media for an adaptative block allocation mechanism