US Patent 7636764 Cloud resource usage in data forwarding storage

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for data forwarding storage. A network includes a group of interconnected computer system nodes, the group including at least one central server, wherein the at least one central server communicates with a cloud resource and controls support of the group of nodes using the cloud resource; and each node of the group of interconnected computer system nodes receives data and continuously forwards the data from node memory to node memory without storing on any physical storage device.