Pivot3 announced that it has been granted two new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Both of the new patents are for hyper-convergence technology. The patents are U.S. Patent No. 9,086,821 for its “Method and system for execution of applications in conjunction with RAID” and U.S. Patent No. 9,146,695 for “Method and System for Distributed RAID.” These two new patents bring the total number of patents for Pivot3 up to 22, many of which center around hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and software-defined storage (SDS).
Pivot3 announced that it has been granted two new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Both of the new patents are for hyper-convergence technology. The patents are U.S. Patent No. 9,086,821 for its “Method and system for execution of applications in conjunction with RAID” and U.S. Patent No. 9,146,695 for “Method and System for Distributed RAID.” These two new patents bring the total number of patents for Pivot3 up to 22, many of which center around hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and software-defined storage (SDS).
With an increasing focus on HCI in the data center, more and more vendors are positioning themselves to be an important player in this growing technology. Pivot3’s newest patents are aimed at addressing issues in HCI such as delivering highly fault tolerant and efficient storage without sacrificing compute performance.
The first patent (9,086,821) broadly covers hyper-converged systems that aggregate storage across nodes to form a virtual SAN and run applications on the same homogeneous, off-the-shelf units. This technology works by combining several physical drives from separate nodes and places them into a single storage resource that supports server virtualization. Pivot3 states that it uses its twelve years of experience to deliver high processing performance by keeping processing overhead to less than 7% of compute resources. The second patent (9,146,695) creates a cross-node virtual SAN that can be accessed as a unified storage target by any application running on the cluster.
As data center infrastructure grows continuously more complex, Pivot3 plans on taking its intellectual property and applying it to areas of IT to increase performance and protect data at an affordable price. Pivot3’s SDS technology gives organizations an alternative to stand-alone storage systems.
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