Patent ID: 8010733

Claim:
A method for use in a computer system comprising: issuing, from a first server to a second server, an object oriented storage access request indicating that the first server has a content unit associated with an object identifier to be stored on at least one storage system, wherein the object identifier identifies the content unit independently of at least one storage location on the at least one storage system at which the content unit is to be stored; receiving, at the first server, at least one block I/O address from the second server, wherein the at least one block I/O address identifies the at least one storage location on the at least one storage system at which the content unit is to be stored; and sending at least one write request from the first server to the at least one storage system, without sending the at least one write request through the second server, to store the content unit to the at least one block I/O address, wherein the at least one write request includes the content unit and identifies the at least one block I/O address.