The illustrative systems and methods advantageously reduce the amount of storage space
occupied by data that no longer has a useful life as established by the data objects' user (s) …

(57) ABSTRACT A storage controller is implemented for controlling a storage system. The
storage controller may be implemented using a distributed computer system and may …

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Patents US9158472B2 - Hierarchical chunking of objects in a distributed storage system …

8,346,820 B2 1/2013 Kesselman et al. 8,463,787 B2 6/2013 Kirshenbaum instance 102-1
plurality of object chunks, thereby removing a second plural ity of object chunks from the …

Placement of object replicas in a distributed storage system includes, at a first instance,
opening a journal for storage of object chunks. An object is received, which comprises one …

Techniques are described herein for distributing data from one or more partitioned tables
across the volatile memories of a cluster. In memory copies of data from partitioned tables …

BACKGROUND As the need and demand for higher capacity, higher per formance
enterprise data storage solutions has increased, the complexity of such storage …

(57) ABSTRACT A method, system, and computer program product compris ing creating files
on a de-duplication device corresponding to each of one or more storage mediums, marking …

(57) ABSTRACT A software and hardware facility persistently maintains metrics on
directories at different levels within a tree of a filesystem. The facility hierarchically …

(57) ABSTRACT A software and hardware facility persistently maintains metrics on
directories at different levels within a tree of a filesystem. The facility hierarchically …