Patents Assigned to Confluence Networks, Inc.
  • System and method for policy based storage provisioning and management
    Publication number: 20050027754
    Abstract: A storage provisioning policy is created by specifying storage heuristics for storage attributes using storage heuristic metadata. Storage attributes characterize a storage device and storage heuristic metadata describe how to specify a storage heuristic. Using the storage heuristic metadata, storage heuristics are defined to express a rule or constraint as a function of a storage attribute. In addition, the storage provisioning policy may also specify mapping rules for exporting the storage to a consumer of the storage, such as the server or server cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Applicants: Candera, Inc., Confluence Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Gajjar, Jim Collins, Richard Meyer, Chandra Prasad, Dipam Patel
  • Silicon-based storage virtualization
    Publication number: 20030037127
    Abstract: A storage server in a storage area network (SAN) environment connecting host computers and storage devices. The storage server includes a plurality of storage processors and a switching circuit. Data is routed between the storage processors via the switching circuit according to routing tags. The routing tags are examined prior to completely receiving the data, allowing the data to be routed with minimal delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: Confluence Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Nilesh Shah, Rahim Ibrahim, Nghiep Tran, Tuan Nguyen
  • Failover processing in a storage system
    Publication number: 20020188711
    Abstract: Failover processing in storage server system utilizes policies for managing fault tolerance (FT) and high availability (HA) configurations. The approach encapsulates the knowledge of failover recovery between components within a storage server and between storage server systems. This knowledge includes information about what components are participating in a Failover Set, how they are configured for failover, what is the Fail-Stop policy, and what are the steps to perform when “failing-over” a component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: Confluence Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Meyer, Kumar Gajjar, Chan Ng, Andre Gusev
  • System and method for policy based storage provisioning and management
    Publication number: 20020174306
    Abstract: A storage provisioning policy is created by specifying storage heuristics for storage attributes using storage heuristic metadata. Storage attributes characterize a storage device and storage heuristic metadata describe how to specify a storage heuristic. Using the storage heuristic metadata, storage heuristics are defined to express a rule or constraint as a function of a storage attribute. In addition, the storage provisioning policy may also specify mapping rules for exporting the storage to a consumer of the storage, such as the server or server cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: Confluence Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Gajjar, Jim Collins, Richard Meyer, Chandra Prasad, Dipam Patel