Symantec Assigned Patent

Symantec Corp., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,898,115) developed by Gunda, Laxmikant, and Rakshe, Praveen, Pune, India, for “systems and methods for using data archiving to expedite server migration.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer-implemented method for using data archiving to expedite server migration may include: 1) archiving data from at least one source computing system to an archiving system in accordance with an archiving policy, 2) altering metadata associated with the archived data on the archiving system so that the metadata references a desired target computing system instead of the source computing system, and then, upon bringing the target computing system online, 3) restoring at least a portion of the archived data from the archiving system to the target computing system. Various other methods, systems, and configured computer-readable media are also disclosed. “

The patent application was filed on February 12, 2013 (13/765,346 ).