Lisa M Chavez

US Patent:

20190339876, Nov 7, 2019

Filed:

May 3, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/969902

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Laura Richardson - Tampa FL, US
Dave Aime Desire Kodjo - Sainte-Marthe-Sur-Le-Lac, CA
Lisa M. Chavez - Placitas NM, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/06

Abstract:

A method, computer system, and computer program product for determining whether data compression should be performed at a storage virtualization layer or a backend layer, within a storage area network, including assessing a volume of data to decide whether the volume of data should be compressed or is already compressed, and in response to deciding that the volume of data should be compressed: checking whether a restriction exists on the volume of data, and in response to deciding that the volume of data is already compressed: determining that the volume of data already compressed should be uncompressed based on at least one metric.