Howard Young

Howard Young

Dothan, Alabama, United States
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Diverse background with more than 25 years experience in Software and System Engineering.…

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  • Methods and apparatus for cut-through cache management for a mirrored virtual volume of a virtualized storage system

    Issued US 8504766

    Methods and apparatus for cut-through cache memory management in write command processing on a mirrored virtual volume of a virtualized storage system, the virtual volume comprising a plurality of physical storage devices coupled with the storage system.

  • Methods and Apparatus for Managing Asynchronous Dependent I/O for a Virtual Fibre Channel Target

    Issued US 8489940

    A management method for maintaining congruency for multiple concurrent I/O while mirroring data across multiple back end targets.

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  • Apparatus and methods for managing expanded capacity of virtual volumes in a storage system

    Issued US 8261003

    Methods and apparatus for expanded capacity virtual volumes in a virtualized storage system. A storage controller of the storage system parses a SCSI command block as it is received to generate a tag value indicating a segment of a virtual volume to which the command block is directed.

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  • Apparatus and methods for look-ahead virtual volume meta-data processing in a storage controller

    Issued US 8255634

    Apparatus and methods for improved efficiency in accessing meta-data in a storage controller of a virtualized storage system. Features and aspects hereof walk/retrieve meta-data for one or more other I/O requests when retrieving meta-data for a first I/O request.

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  • Apparatus and methods for real-time routing of received commands in a split-path architecture storage controller

    Issued US 8176218

    A split-path storage controller comprises a soft-path I/O processor for processing of any received frames and comprises a fast-path I/O processor for efficient processing of common read and write command.

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  • Dynamic load balancing of fibre channel traffic

    Issued US 8155518

    Determines Fiber Channel traffic sizes of pending requests and, based in part on the traffic sizes and operable normalized speeds of the Fiber Channel ports, adaptively route the pending original traffic across the Fiber Channel ports.

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