Abstract: Provided are a photon up-conversion film, which is capable, of high-efficiency up-conversion even in air and even when low-intensity light is used, and a simple method of producing the film. The photon up-conversion film according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a matrix including a resin; and a pore portion, wherein the photon up-conversion film includes at least a sensitizing component capable of absorbing light in a first wavelength region ?1, and a light-emitting component capable of radiating light in a second wavelength region ?2 including wavelengths shorter than those of the first wavelength region ?1, and wherein the sensitizing component and the light-emitting component are present at an interface between the matrix and the pore portion.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve an innovative method for detecting error zones from a plurality of volume groups. The method may include creating a plurality of probe groups for error detection; detecting a new error associated with the plurality of probe groups and the plurality of volume groups; retrieving error information associated with the new error, wherein the error information comprises an error source, an error type, and an error time; retrieving an error correlation rule associated with the error information; determining if the error correlation rule is satisfied by the error information and information of other known errors; and identifying a common zone based on the error information and the information of the other known errors as an error zone.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods that can include, responsive to a request to deploy an application using a storage of a storage system, managing a storage configuration for the application; managing data information and storage configuration information associated with a copy relationship between data used by the application and the storage configuration for the storage system; extracting and evaluating possible configuration patterns from the data information and the storage configuration information; and providing ones of the possible configuration patterns that satisfy specified requirements for the application.

Abstract: The infrared absorber 1 is provided with a finely structured metal layer 2 which causes local surface plasmon resonance by absorption infrared light; a dielectric layer 3 under the finely structured metal layer, and a metal layer 4 under the dielectric layer 3. The dielectric layer 3 is stacked between the layers 2 and 4 and consists of an organic polymer material having a molecular bond whose vibration is excited by infrared absorption. Further, the gas sensor is provided with the infrared absorber as the light source and/or the photodetector.

Abstract: While a connection between a copy pair comprising a primary volume in a first storage system associated with a primary host and a secondary volume in a second storage system associated with a secondary host is disconnected, systems and methods described herein can involve changing a state of the copy pair for each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a temporary suspended state; detecting whether a network connection has recovered; for the detecting indicative of the network connection having recovered, changing the state of the copy pair for the each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a copy pair state; and for the detecting indicative of the network connection not being recovered after a threshold period of time has elapsed, changing the state of the copy pair for the each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a suspended state.

Abstract: A virtual storage system according to an aspect of the present invention includes multiple storage systems each including: a storage controller that accepts a read/write request for reading or writing from and to a logical volume; and multiple storage devices. The storage system defines a pool that manages the storage device capable of allocating any of storage areas to the logical volume, and manages the capacity (pool capacity) of the storage areas belonging to the pool, and the capacity (pool available capacity) of unused storage areas in the pool. Furthermore, the storage system calculates the total value of the pool available capacities of the storage systems included in the virtual storage system, and provides the server with the total value as the pool available capacity of the virtual storage system.

Abstract: While a connection between a copy pair comprising a primary volume in a first storage system associated with a primary host and a secondary volume in a second storage system associated with a secondary host is disconnected, systems and methods described herein can involve changing a state of the copy pair for each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a temporary suspended state; detecting whether a network connection has recovered; for the detecting indicative of the network connection having recovered, changing the state of the copy pair for the each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a copy pair state; and for the detecting indicative of the network connection not being recovered after a threshold period of time has elapsed, changing the state of the copy pair for the each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a suspended state.

Abstract: There are provided an information processing system that operates virtual machines and storage controllers on a processor, and an information processing method executed by the information processing system. A storage controller group capable of taking over processing between the storage controllers arranged in different nodes is provided. The virtual machine is movable between the different nodes by deploy. The virtual machine and the storage controller that processes data input and output by the virtual machine are arranged in the same node. A combination of the virtual machines that cannot be arranged in the same node is defined by a restriction. A management unit arranges one of the virtual machines that cannot be arranged in the same node in the node in which the storage controller included in the storage controller group to which the storage controller used by the other virtual machine belongs is not arranged.

Abstract: Provided is a resource allocation determination method for a VM/container, volume, and the like created as a new VM/container or volume without exceeding an upper limit of a computer resource of a node in an HCI environment. In order to determine allocation of at least one of a virtual machine, a container, and a volume in a system of the HCI environment, a use state of a computer resource shared by a virtual machine and a storage controller operating on each node is managed, and an allocation destination node of the new virtual machine, container, or volume is determined based on the use state without exceeding an upper limit of a computer resource of the allocation destination node.

Abstract: Example implementation described herein are directed to a mechanism to provision data volume which requires remote data copy between separated clusters, especially for the container platform. For a request to create a volume made to the clusters, example implementations can involve creating a first volume in a first cluster; obtaining volume information of a corresponding second volume from a second cluster; configuring the first volume and the corresponding second volume in the second cluster to have a remote copy relationship based on the obtained volume information; and setting access from the container to the first volume and the corresponding second volume based on the remote copy relationship.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein provide systems and methods for detecting damage to data by malware and involve generating log information at a storage device based on a write input/output (I/O) provided to the storage device by one or more servers, the log information comprising time information for storing the write I/O to the storage device, logical block information for the write I/O, and a compression ratio associated with storing the write I/O to the storage device; and, for a request by a management server to provide the log information for a specified time range for the storage device, returning, from the storage device, the logical block information and the compression ratio associated with the time information within the specified time range.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods which automatically determine volumes to be replicated for disaster recovery based on the execution priority of an application which uses the volumes. Such example implementations can involve systems and methods involving creating a volume in a first storage system for each of one or more containers newly launched on one or more servers managing a container orchestrator; and establishing replication of the volume for the each of the newly launched one or more containers to a second storage system in order from highest container priority to lowest container priority.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods which automatically determine volumes to be replicated for disaster recovery based on the execution priority of an application which uses the volumes. Such example implementations can involve systems and methods involving creating a volume in a first storage system for each of one or more containers newly launched on one or more servers managing a container orchestrator; and establishing replication of the volume for the each of the newly launched one or more containers to a second storage system in order from highest container priority to lowest container priority.

Abstract: A gas detector uses a MEMS gas sensor having: a substrate provided with a cavity and an insulating film over the cavity; a metal oxide semiconductor and a heater both provided on the insulating film. A drive circuit operates the heater with a predetermined period for a predetermined pulse duration in order to heat the metal oxide semiconductor. The drive circuit halts operation of the heater or elongates the period when a humidity sensor detects that the atmosphere is humid.

Abstract: In a case of exchanging a migration source storage controller and a migration destination storage controller sharing one storage medium during replacement of storage devices, when hardware configurations or data management forms of the storage controllers are different, data in the storage medium cannot be shared even when data management information can be copied. Accordingly, a storage system, having a storage control unit and a storage drive provided with a storage medium, includes data management information for accessing data in the storage drive. A first storage control unit copies data management information about the data in the storage drive to a second storage control unit. When a write request is received from a host after copying of the data management information begins, each of the first storage and second storage control units stores write data related to the write request in a separate storage area of the storage drive.

Abstract: A gas detector includes metal-oxide semiconductor gas sensors and their driving circuit. The gas detector stores the ratio of initial gas sensor resistance in air and that in an atmosphere including Freon gas, for the gas sensors. The gas detector learns sensor resistance in air for a gas sensor in use and detects Freon gas by comparing the sensor resistance of the gas sensor in use with the learned resistance in air divided by the ratio. When the first gas sensor has been used for a predetermined period, both the first gas sensor and a second gas sensor are used for a learning period to continue detection of Freon by the first gas sensor and to learn the resistance in air of the second gas sensor. After completion of the learning period, Freon is detected by the second gas sensor.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods which can include managing a mapping between write identifier, access virtual device identifier, and physical device for a drive unit comprising a plurality of physical devices. for migration of a virtual device from a first controller to a second controller, example implementations can further involve retrieving a virtual device identifier from the second controller; determining the physical device associated with the virtual device from the plurality of physical devices; and updating, for the determined physical device, the access virtual device identifier with the virtual device identifier in the mapping. Commands received to the determined physical device are processed through modification of one or more fields related to a data integrity field of the commands based on the updated mapping. Data received from the determined physical device is processed through modification of the data integrity field based on the updated mapping.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for facilitating remote copy pair volume with data consistency. For a command received for one of a first volume and a second volume during execution of a pair synchronization process between the first volume and the second volume, example implementations can involve determining whether an address range of one of the first volume and the second volume configured to be provided to a host computer is to be locked based on the command; locking the address range of the one of the first volume and the second volume for the determination indicative of the address range of one of the first volume and the second volume is to be locked; and executing the command on the first volume and the second volume while the address range configured to be provided to the host computer is locked.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for facilitating remote copy pair volume with data consistency. For a command received for one of a first volume and a second volume during execution of a pair synchronization process between the first volume and the second volume, example implementations can involve determining whether an address range of one of the first volume and the second volume configured to be provided to a host computer is to be locked based on the command; locking the address range of the one of the first volume and the second volume for the determination indicative of the address range of one of the first volume and the second volume is to be locked; and executing the command on the first volume and the second volume while the address range configured to be provided to the host computer is locked.

Abstract: Example implementation described herein are directed to a mechanism to provision data volume which requires remote data copy between separated clusters, especially for the container platform. For a request to create a volume made to the clusters, example implementations can involve creating a first volume in a first cluster; obtaining volume information of a corresponding second volume from a second cluster; configuring the first volume and the corresponding second volume in the second cluster to have a remote copy relationship based on the obtained volume information; and setting access from the container to the first volume and the corresponding second volume based on the remote copy relationship.