Commvault Assigned Three Patents

Cloud-based destination for block-level data replication processing
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (12159044) developed by Waghmare; Manojkumar Machindra, Pune, India, Ausarkar; Amit Bhaskar, Maharashtra, India, Gutta; Sunil Kumar, Hyderabad, India, and Agrawal; Vijay H., Pune, India, for a “cloud-based destination for block-level data replication processing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods disclosed herein improve on current technology for block-level data replication to cloud computing environments. A new system architecture deploys one or more replication tail proxies in a cloud computing environment, locally (at the cloud) tracks replicated data and determines which replicated data meet criteria for reconstructing a desired point-in-time in the cloud, and persists data blocks received at the replication tail proxy until they are processed as recovery points. The disclosed approach presents resiliency and performance advantages. First, the resiliency of block-level data replication to cloud is improved by deploying the replication tail proxy in the destination cloud. Second, a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is reduced by enabling faster cloud deployment of virtual machines for disaster recovery, failover, and/or test purposes based on the replicated data.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-06-29 (17/852883).

Protecting configuration data in clustered container system
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (12135618) developed by Mitkar; Amit, Manalapan, NJ, Kundaram; Srinivas Govind, Maharashtra, India, Bhavanarushi; Shankarbabu, Hyderabad, India, Amarendran; Arun Prasad, Manalapan, NJ, and Dikkar; Rohit Himmatrao, Maharashtra, India, for “protecting configuration data in a clustered container system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Protecting configuration data in a clustered container system may include, in some embodiments, protecting an ETCD data store in a Kubernetes cluster. A data storage management system addresses the unique needs of protecting an ETCD data store of a target Kubernetes cluster, as well as protecting non-ETCD data payloads. The illustrative data storage management system defines ETCD as a unique kind of workload. ETCD protection is integrated within the data storage management system, which automatically creates data structures and resources within the system for, and provides special-purpose features to protect, ETCD contents and associated security certificates. One of the special-purpose features deploys a temporary data transfer agent within the target Kubernetes cluster to safeguard an ETCD snapshot and transmit its contents, along with the security certificates, to a backup infrastructure that operates outside of the target Kubernetes cluster. The backup infrastructure comprises components deployed by the data storage management system.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-08-04 (17/881457).

Cloud-based air-gapped data storage management system
Commvault Systems, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ, has been assigned a patent (12130708) developed by Chatterjee; Tirthankar, Nara; Prasad, Manalapan, NJ, and Vijayan; Manoj Kumar, Marlboro, NJ, for a “cloud-based air-gapped data storage management system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An illustrative cloud-based air-gapped data storage management (destination) system obtains authorized access to other (source) systems’ backup copies, replicates those copies within the destination system, parses supplemental metadata included in the source backup copies, and integrates the replica copies into the destination system as though natively created there. Replica copies are integrated as backup copies without first restoring the source backup copies to a native data format. The source system lacks knowledge of or connectivity with the destination system, thus maintaining an “air gap” between the systems. The destination system preferably operates in a cloud computing environment. The destination system uses supplemental metadata from the replica copies to re-create or mimic the source’s computing environment and to restore backed up data from the replica copies. The destination system also operates as an autonomous analytics engine, applying value-added services to backed up data pulled from source system(s).”

The patent application was filed on 2020-12-14 (17/120555).