Abstract: A network management method includes: collecting information on performance and a configuration of a network from a network device and respective nodes that constitute the network; estimating, based on the collected information, a path in the network for each communication executed between the nodes via the network; determining, based on an estimated result of the path of each communication, whether deviation exists in the paths used for communications in the network, and determining whether an overload occurs in the network; and determining, based on a determination result of whether the deviation exists in the paths and a determination result of whether the overload occurs, control content for the corresponding node, and controlling the node in accordance with a determined result.

Abstract: A highly accurate data migration pattern is decided on the bases of usages of a plurality of kinds of resources and by taking influence of execution of data migration on each resource into consideration. In a distributed storage system, a monitor acquires a per-period usage of each of the plurality of kinds of the resources per data, a performance simulator estimates a per-period usage of each resource on a migration destination node when the data is migrated by using the acquired per-data resource usage and calculates an estimate of a latency from the estimated usage of each resource and an optimizer decides a migration pattern of the data on the basis of the estimate of the latency.

Abstract: A highly accurate data migration pattern is decided on the bases of usages of a plurality of kinds of resources and by taking influence of execution of data migration on each resource into consideration. In a distributed storage system, a monitor acquires a per-period usage of each of the plurality of kinds of the resources per data, a performance simulator estimates a per-period usage of each resource on a migration destination node when the data is migrated by using the acquired per-data resource usage and calculates an estimate of a latency from the estimated usage of each resource and an optimizer decides a migration pattern of the data on the basis of the estimate of the latency.

Abstract: A control device for controlling a linear actuator having a linear motor and a brake device includes a magnetic pole position estimation means to estimate which of a plurality of sections obtained by dividing a magnetic pole position of 0° to 360°, the mover is located in on the basis of a direction of movement of the mover by pulse energization, a magnetic pole position setting means to perform direct current excitation at an estimated magnetic pole position estimated by the magnetic pole position estimation means and set the estimated magnetic pole position as a magnetic pole position of the mover, and a brake control means to turn on a brake device before pulse energization by the magnetic pole position estimation means is performed and turn off the brake device after the magnetic pole position estimation means estimates the section in which the mover is located.

Abstract: Disclosed is a storage system having a plurality of storage nodes, each of the storage nodes including: a non-volatile storage apparatus that stores control information regarding a volume; a capacity controller that performs control associated with writing information to and reading information from the storage apparatus; and a migration controller migrates the volume, in which when the volume is migrated between the storage nodes, the capacity controller updates the control information in response to the migration of the volume performed by the migration controller.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods to manage log data that is stored to a storage system. In example implementations, received log data is classified for storage into a storage system having a high tier storage and a low tier storage. For the classification indicative of storage into the high tier storage of the storage system, the storage system stores the log data into the high tier storage, and moves related log data stored in the low tier storage to the high tier storage. For the classification indicative of storage into the low tier storage of the storage system, the storage system stores the log data into the low tier storage and moves the related log data stored in the high tier storage to the low tier storage.

Abstract: Processing efficiency of a computer using a volume and processing efficiency of another computer using another volume corresponding to the volume can be maintained at high levels. In a computer system, a storage apparatus is able to provide a certain volume to a computer, and another storage apparatus provides data to the computer by causing a virtualization function to point to another volume from the certain volume and copying data from the other volume to the certain volume. An upper limit on the number of pages copiable from the other volume to the certain volume of the storage apparatus is set. A CPU of the other storage apparatus copies data in an amount equal to or smaller than the upper limit from a page among multiple pages of the other volume to a storage region corresponding to a page forming the certain volume of the storage apparatus.

Abstract: Even though storage systems are different in types, storage pools in a plurality of storage systems are integrated, and a storage volume is created in a suited storage pool corresponding to a storage requirements. In an information system where a plurality of storage systems (a disk array, an SDS system, and an HCI system) is present, when creating the storage volume using requested storage requirements as parameters, a storage management server selects a storage pool that satisfies the storage requirements based on comparison of the storage requirements and characteristic information held in first management information (a storage pool management table), the server creates the storage volume in the selected storage pool, and the server adds an entry relating to the created storage volume to second management information (a volume management table).

Abstract: Provided is a distributed storage system which can reduce a load on a network between storage apparatuses when an access request is received and improve responsiveness. In the distributed storage system, the storage device includes a data area and a cache area; a node becomes an owner node when receiving a transfer of charge of an LU from another node in a non-storage state where LU data is not stored in a data area; the processor of the owner node receives a read request for an LU that is in charge, obtains data of a target area based on data of the storage device of another node when the data of the target area is not stored in the data area or the cache area of the owner node, and transmits the data to a request source and stores it in a cache area.

Abstract: A computer system includes a host unit that issues a request of an I/O processing to a volume VOL, a local pool control unit that is in charge of management of a local pool based on a storage area of a drive of one node, and a global pool control unit that is in charge of management of a global pool based on a plurality of local pools, wherein the global pool control unit controls transmission of target data of the I/O processing performed by the host unit based on a commonality relationship among a first node that is formed with the host unit performing the I/O processing, a second node that is formed with the global pool control unit, and a third node that is formed with the local pool control unit managing the local pool.

Abstract: A computer system includes: a storage device; storage area management units that provide a storage area, based on the storage device to a data management unit having a data protection function for achieving availability of a system providing a service, and have a data control function for the storage area; and a control unit that manages arrangement of the storage area and a data control policy applied to the storage area. The control unit acquires setting information about the availability of the system providing the service and performance of the service and determines the data control policy applied to the storage area, based on the setting information. The storage area management units control the storage area, based on the data control policy.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition for a flexographic printing plate, the photosensitive resin composition including at least a hydrophilic copolymer (A), a thermoplastic elastomer (B), a photo-polymerizable monomer (C), a photo-polymerization initiator (D), a plasticizer (E), and an acidic group-containing polymer (F), wherein the photosensitive resin composition for the flexographic printing plate has an acid value of 1 to 100 mgKOH/g, as measured by neutralization titration.

Abstract: Provided is a speed reduction or speed increasing apparatus where the rotational stiffness can be increased, including a housing, a first crown gear, a support unit placed radially outward of the first crown gear to support the first crown gear to be capable of wave motion and incapable of rotation with respect to the housing, a second crown gear configured to be rotatable with respect to the housing, the second crown gear having a different number of teeth from the first crown gear, the second crown gear facing the first crown gear, and a cam unit configured to incline the first crown gear with respect to the second crown gear in such a manner that the first crown gear engages with the second crown gear, and to cause the first crown gear to undergo wave motion in such a manner that the location of contact moves.

Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes. The storage node includes: one or more storage devices which respectively provide a storage area; and one or more control software which read/write requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from a higher-level device, wherein each of the control software retains predetermined configuration information required for reading/writing requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from the higher-level device, wherein a plurality of the control software are managed as a redundancy group, and the configuration information retained in each of the control software belonging to the same redundancy group is synchronously updated, and wherein the plurality of control software configuring the redundancy group are each deployed in respectively different storage nodes so as to distribute a load of each of the storage nodes.

Abstract: A storage system as a storage cluster recognized as one storage device with respect to a host system specifies a primary volume, to which one or more snapshot volumes are associated, as a migration source primary volume and performs migration processing of migrating at least the migration source primary volume from among the migration source primary volume and a part of the snapshot volumes from a migration source storage device (storage device including specified migration source primary volume and one or more snapshot volume) to a migration target storage device.

Abstract: While an extra storage resource required for an operation of IaaS/PaaS is reduced, an SLA on storage performance is maintained even upon a failure. In a storage system including a plurality of storage nodes for providing storage regions for storing data of a computer on which an application is executed, a normal mode to be set in a normal state and an emergency mode in which a predetermined function is suppressed compared with the normal mode are prepared as a process mode for a request for input and output of data. In the storage system, in response to the occurrence of a failure in a first storage node, the process mode is switched to the emergency mode for a second storage node in which the failure does not occur.

Abstract: A storage system is configured to include a plurality of storage nodes, and includes a selection unit which selects a storage node required for setting a data protection level after conversion from among the plurality of storage nodes on the basis of information related to the conversion of the data protection level. The storage node selected by the selection unit manages data using the data protection level after conversion.

Abstract: To more effectively eliminate a resource imbalance among storage apparatuses, and shorten the time required for elimination in a computer system including a plurality of storage apparatuses and a computer. In a computer system including a plurality of storage apparatuses that provide a volume to a computer and a storage management device that manages the plurality of storage apparatuses, in a case where there is an instruction to create a new volume, the storage management device compares a distribution of feature amounts of all volumes provided by each storage apparatus and a distribution of feature amounts of all volumes in a case of providing a newly created volume in each storage apparatus, and instructs a storage apparatus having a largest difference in the distributions of the feature amounts to create a volume.

Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes. The storage node includes: one or more storage devices which respectively provide a storage area; and one or more control software which read/write requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from a higher-level device, wherein each of the control software retains predetermined configuration information required for reading/writing requested data from/into the corresponding storage device according to a request from the higher-level device, wherein a plurality of the control software are managed as a redundancy group, and the configuration information retained in each of the control software belonging to the same redundancy group is synchronously updated, and wherein the plurality of control software configuring the redundancy group are each deployed in respectively different storage nodes so as to distribute a load of each of the storage nodes.

Abstract: A control device for controlling a linear actuator having a linear motor and a brake device includes a magnetic pole position estimation means to estimate which of a plurality of sections obtained by dividing a magnetic pole position of 0° to 360°, the mover is located in on the basis of a direction of movement of the mover by pulse energization, a magnetic pole position setting means to perform direct current excitation at an estimated magnetic pole position estimated by the magnetic pole position estimation means and set the estimated magnetic pole position as a magnetic pole position of the mover, and a brake control means to turn on a brake device before pulse energization by the magnetic pole position estimation means is performed and turn off the brake device after the magnetic pole position estimation means estimates the section in which the mover is located.