US PATENT DOCUMENTS module to cooperatively manage the tiers of the multiple tiers of
heterogeneous physical storage media and a file system coupled with the control module …

This invention relates to electronic data storage and more particularly relates to
management of metadata related to data access on shared electronic storage resources. 2 …

US7131027B2 - Method and apparatus for disk array based I/O routing and multi-layered
external storage linkage - Google Patents US7131027B2 - Method and apparatus for disk array …

Event-based data transfer scheduling using elastic network optimization criteria is provided.
Bandwidth optimization criteria corresponding to different types of data transfer event …

Data transfer using flexible dynamic elastic network service provider relationships is
provided. A relationship is dynamically established with an elastic network service provider …

BACKGROUND A storage server is a special-purpose processing system used to store and
retrieve data on behalf of one or more client processing systems (" clients'). A storage server …

Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink (UL) reference signal
(RS) in a wireless communi cation system. A first user equipment (UE) served through a …

An approach is provided for managing an allocation of a bandwidth of a dedicated channel
in a network being utilized by an application performing a replication of data from a first to a …

(57) ABSTRACT A file system receives a request to set a capacity guarantee for a virtual
Volume associated with a logical aggregation of physical storage. In response, the file …

Provided are techniques for copying data. A Volume container copy set that includes
Volume containers is received. A Vol ume container copy set that includes Volume …