Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for distributed memory management comprising a network component configured for network communication with one or more memory resources that store data and one or more consumer devices that use data, the network component comprising a switching device in operative communication with a mapping resource, wherein the mapping resource is configured to associate mappings between data addresses associated with memory requests from a consumer device relating to a data object and information relating to a storage location in the one or more memory resources associated with the data from the data object, wherein each data address has contained therein identification information for identifying the data from the data object associated with that data address; and the switching device is configured to route memory requests based on the mappings.

Abstract: A distributed computing system for automatic constraint-based data resource arrangement, comprising a plurality of computing components being communicatively coupled to each other, each computing component comprising the following data resources: data storage media for storing client-related digital information, a data processor for processing said client-related digital information, and a network communications interface for communicating said client-related digital information; and a constraint engine for automatically determining alternate arrangements of said data resource assignments, said constraint engine comprising a constraint processor and a constraint database, said constraint database for receiving and storing changeable digital constraint parameters indicative of permissible operational constraints on said data resources, wherein said alternate arrangements comply with at least a first set of said changeable digital constraint parameters; wherein said data resource assignments are reassigned from

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for of determining snapshot storage space consumption in a data storage system, a snapshot being a representation of a given state of a data object comprising of direct references to data blocks for data that has been changed from a prior state and indirect references to existing direct references in the prior state for unchanged data, the method comprising the steps: for each write of data to a given snapshot of the data object, storing unique address information relating to the unique direct references for said writes, said unique address information comprising at least a count of unique direct references; upon generating a further snapshot of a prior snapshot, retaining said prior snapshot and unique address information in storage as read-only access; and determining a count of unique direct references for all snapshots relating to the data object based on the stored unique address information.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices relating to a network-accessible data storage system for processing data transactions received over the network comprising one or more of a communication interface to the network, one or more data storage devices configured to respond to the data transactions communicated via the communication interface, the one or more data storage devices providing at least two data storage resources distinctly designated to accommodate respective data processing characteristics, and the data transactions are comprised of one or more of data transactions received or data transactions sent, and a resource allocation engine operatively associated with the communication interface to receive as input a given data processing characteristic automatically identifiable from each of the data transactions and allocate a designated one of the data storage resources according to the given data processing characteristic in responding to each of the data transactions.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices relating to a network-accessible data storage device comprising a network interface in data communication with a network, the network interface for receiving and sending data units, the data units being assigned to at least one of a plurality of network data queues depending on at least one data unit characteristic; a data storage component communicatively coupled with the network interface, the data storage component comprising a plurality of data storage resources for receiving and responding to data transactions communicated in data units; and a queue mapping component for mapping each network data queues to at least one data storage resource for processing of data transactions.

Abstract: Data address management systems, methods, devices and uses for minimizing interaction with data consumers' data on data storage devices, an embodiment comprising an external bus for communicatively interfacing the data storage system and data consumers; at least one storage medium components, each storage medium component comprising a plurality of storage locations having a unique storage location indicators; a translation layer module comprising a data address space having data addresses associable with storage location indicators; and a controller configured to store data in the storage locations and creating associations in the translation layer module between data addresses and the physical location indicators; wherein the data address space is accessible by the data consumer for addressing requests relating to data stored on the storage device and wherein the controller is configured to manipulate the arrangement of the data addresses in the data address space.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices relating to coordinated network communication (e.g. transport-layer communication) of client requests and client request responses between a client and a distributed network service system, the network service nodes of the distributed network service system comprising a storage resource, a network interface, and a computer processor module for sending a coordinated network communication of data request responses to the client upon receipt of (1) network communication of client requests from clients; or (2) communication data channel information from another network service node.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for distributed memory management comprising a network component configured for network communication with one or more memory resources that store data and one or more consumer devices that use data, the network component comprising a switching device in operative communication with a mapping resource, wherein the mapping resource is configured to associate mappings between data addresses associated with memory requests from a consumer device relating to a data object and information relating to a storage location in the one or more memory resources associated with the data from the data object, wherein each data address has contained therein identification information for identifying the data from the data object associated with that data address; and the switching device is configured to route memory requests based on the mappings.

Abstract: Data address management systems, methods, devices and uses for minimizing interaction with data consumers' data on data storage devices, an embodiment comprising an external bus for communicatively interfacing the data storage system and data consumers; at least one storage medium components, each storage medium component comprising a plurality of storage locations having a unique storage location indicators; a translation layer module comprising a data address space having data addresses associable with storage location indicators; and a controller configured to store data in the storage locations and creating associations in the translation layer module between data addresses and the physical location indicators; wherein the data address space is accessible by the data consumer for addressing requests relating to data stored on the storage device and wherein the controller is configured to manipulate the arrangement of the data addresses in the data address space.

Abstract: A distributed computing system for automatic constraint-based data resource arrangement, comprising a plurality of computing components being communicatively coupled to each other, each computing component comprising the following data resources: data storage media for storing client-related digital information, a data processor for processing said client-related digital information, and a network communications interface for communicating said client-related digital information; and a constraint engine for automatically determining alternate arrangements of said data resource assignments, said constraint engine comprising a constraint processor and a constraint database, said constraint database for receiving and storing changeable digital constraint parameters indicative of permissible operational constraints on said data resources, wherein said alternate arrangements comply with at least a first set of said changeable digital constraint parameters; wherein said data resource assignments are reassigned from

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to distributed computing systems, and methods and devices relating thereto, said systems comprising a plurality of distributed computing hosts that process client requests from a computing client; and a programmable network switch, comprising two or more network ports for communicatively interfacing said plurality of distributed computing hosts and said computing client, said programmable network switch operable to forward client requests to a given network port based on forwarding rules related to client source addresses; wherein the programmable network switch replaces a request destination address with an incoming network port indicator that identifies on which network port a given client request is received; and wherein the programmable network switch forwards, without reference to the forwarding rules, request responses to the network port associated with the request source address and replaces the response source address with the request destination address associated with

Abstract: Data address management systems, methods, devices and uses for minimizing interaction with data consumers' data on data storage devices, an embodiment comprising an external bus for communicatively interfacing the data storage system and data consumers; at least one storage medium components, each storage medium component comprising a plurality of storage locations having a unique storage location indicators; a translation layer module comprising a data address space having data addresses associable with storage location indicators; and a controller configured to store data in the storage locations and creating associations in the translation layer module between data addresses and the physical location indicators; wherein the data address space is accessible by the data consumer for addressing requests relating to data stored on the storage device and wherein the controller is configured to manipulate the arrangement of the data addresses in the data address space.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for distributed memory management comprising a network component configured for network communication with one or more memory resources that store data and one or more consumer devices that use data, the network component comprising a switching device in operative communication with a mapping resource, wherein the mapping resource is configured to associate mappings between data addresses associated with memory requests from a consumer device relating to a data object and information relating to a storage location in the one or more memory resources associated with the data from the data object, wherein each data address has contained therein identification information for identifying the data from the data object associated with that data address; and the switching device is configured to route memory requests based on the mappings.

Abstract: Data address management systems, methods, devices and uses for minimizing interaction with data consumers' data on data storage devices, an embodiment comprising an external bus for communicatively interfacing the data storage system and data consumers; at least one storage medium components, each storage medium component comprising a plurality of storage locations having a unique storage location indicators; a translation layer module comprising a data address space having data addresses associable with storage location indicators; and a controller configured to store data in the storage locations and creating associations in the translation layer module between data addresses and the physical location indicators; wherein the data address space is accessible by the data consumer for addressing requests relating to data stored on the storage device and wherein the controller is configured to manipulate the arrangement of the data addresses in the data address space.

Abstract: A distributed computing system for automatic constraint-based data resource arrangement, comprising a plurality of computing components being communicatively coupled to each other, each computing component comprising the following data resources: data storage media for storing client-related digital information, a data processor for processing said client-related digital information, and a network communications interface for communicating said client-related digital information; and a constraint engine for automatically determining alternate arrangements of said data resource assignments, said constraint engine comprising a constraint processor and a constraint database, said constraint database for receiving and storing changeable digital constraint parameters indicative of permissible operational constraints on said data resources, wherein said alternate arrangements comply with at least a first set of said changeable digital constraint parameters; wherein said data resource assignments are reassigned from

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for management of instances of virtual memory components for storing computer readable information for use by at least one first computing device, the system comprising at least one physical computing device, each physical computing device being communicatively coupled over a network and comprising: a physical memory component, a computing processor component, an operating system, a virtual machine monitor, and virtual memory storage appliances; at least one of the virtual memory storage appliances being configured to (a) accept memory instructions from the at least one first computing device, (b) instantiate instances of at least one virtual memory component, (c) allocate memory resources from at least one physical memory component for use by any one of the least one virtual memory components, optionally according to a pre-defined policy; and (d) implement memory instructions on the at least one physical memory component.

Abstract: Systems, methods and devices relating to a network-accessible data storage device comprising a network interface in data communication with a network, the network interface for receiving and sending data units, the data units being assigned to at least one of a plurality of network data queues depending on at least one data unit characteristic; a data storage component communicatively coupled with the network interface, the data storage component comprising a plurality of data storage resources for receiving and responding to data transactions communicated in data units; and a queue mapping component for mapping each network data queues to at least one data storage resource for processing of data transactions.

Abstract: Described are various embodiments of methods, systems, devices and appliances relating to virtualized application-layer space for data processing in such data storage systems, including a distributed data storage system, and methods relating thereto, for implementing application-specific data processing of stored client data, the data storage system comprising: a plurality of communicatively coupled data storage components, each data storage component comprising at least one data storage resource and a processor, the plurality of data storage components maintaining a data object store of client data, said client data being stored in said data object store in accordance with a data object store file system; and a virtualized processing unit instantiated implementing application-specific data processing of said client data stored on the data object store, said client data object store accessible by said virtualized processing unit in accordance with an application-specific data storage access protocol.

Abstract: A distributed computing system for automatic constraint-based data resource arrangement, comprising a plurality of computing components being communicatively coupled to each other, each computing component comprising the following data resources: data storage media for storing client-related digital information, a data processor for processing said client-related digital information, and a network communications interface for communicating said client-related digital information; and a constraint engine for automatically determining alternate arrangements of said data resource assignments, said constraint engine comprising a constraint processor and a constraint database, said constraint database for receiving and storing changeable digital constraint parameters indicative of permissible operational constraints on said data resources, wherein said alternate arrangements comply with at least a first set of said changeable digital constraint parameters; wherein said data resource assignments are reassigned from

Abstract: Data address management systems, methods, devices and uses for minimizing interaction with data consumers' data on data storage devices, an embodiment comprising an external bus for communicatively interfacing the data storage system and data consumers; at least one storage medium components, each storage medium component comprising a plurality of storage locations having a unique storage location indicators; a translation layer module comprising a data address space having data addresses associable with storage location indicators; and a controller configured to store data in the storage locations and creating associations in the translation layer module between data addresses and the physical location indicators; wherein the data address space is accessible by the data consumer for addressing requests relating to data stored on the storage device and wherein the controller is configured to manipulate the arrangement of the data addresses in the data address space.