Patent 10216651 was granted and assigned to NexGen Storage on February, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention is directed to a primary data storage system for use in a computer network in which a network allows user computers to transfer data to/from the primary data storage system. In one embodiment, the primary data storage system implements a tiering strategy to move data between stores with different characteristics so as to match the characteristics of the data to the characteristics of one of the stores.