Patent ID: 9571576
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A storage appliance system comprising: one or more storage servers connected in a cluster to service storage requests submitted by one or more host devices located remotely in relation to the one or more storage servers in the storage appliance system; one or more interface servers, located locally in relation to the one or more storage servers, wherein at least one interface server is configured to act as a conduit to receive a storage requests generated by a target application executed on a host device and to communicate said storage request to at least one of the storage servers; an application server, located locally in relation to the one or more storage servers, wherein at least one processor on the application server supports the local execution of the target application, such that the target application is executed directly on the application server, so that communications for transmitting and servicing the storage requests submitted by the target application are directly communicated between the application server and the storage servers to reduce or eliminate need for remote data communications between the one or more storage servers and the host device.