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Hitachi Assigned Patent(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 1 -- Hitachi, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,341,365) developed by Atsushi Murase, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Yasunori Kaneda, San Jose, Calif., for a "data backup system and method for virtual infrastructure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems for backing up the data of an IT system by utilizing server or storage virtualization technology to create and move logical IT infrastructures dynamically. A virtualized IT system provides a server resource pool and a storage resource pool composed from multiple physical devices either within a datacenter or a globally located plurality of datacenters. The virtual server and the storage volume provisioned from those pools will be paired to form the virtual infrastructure. In other words, the virtual infrastructure becomes a logical IT environment build with the required computing and storage resources needed in order to execute specific applications. The virtual infrastructure can also be migrated within/among datacenter sites." The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2012 (13/344,501). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,341,365&OS=8,341,365&RS=8,341,365 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0101HP0101-825633 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |