Zetta Assigned Patent for Technology That Speeds Direct-to-Cloud Backup

Zetta, Inc. has been awarded a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office that covers the mechanics of how it makes direct-to-cloud data protection fast and efficient.

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It also includes protection for technology processes that enable direct-to-cloud backup, without any intermediary appliance or staging area, in addition to concurrent local copies.

The latest in a series of company’s patents, the 9,483,359, protects systems and methods which enable firm’s data protection technology for backup and DR to be applicable to more customers and use cases, by increasing network transport efficiency.

The technology is based on enterprise replication methodologies, which provide state consistent snapshot replication. Like incremental backups, it only transfers changed data segments, but unlike traditional incremental backups it isn’t susceptible to a single bad backup invalidating all subsequent backups.

“Zetta has provided, since it’s inception, Internet scale, direct-to-cloud replication for backup and DR. This patent is a reflection of our consistent focus on what makes us different, specifically WAN-efficient transport,” said Jeff Whitehead, CTO, Zetta. “This technology allows us to protect larger data sets, or a higher underlying rate of change, than other approaches. We have even seen cases where we are able to replicate datasets – over the public internet – faster than legacy backup systems were able to backup from disk-to-disk within a local network.“

This furthers company’s prowess in technology innovation and adds to a range of additional patents earned by the company for faster direct-to-cloud backup, DR and DR as a Services capabilities.

The company additionally been awarded nine other patents including patents for the following technologies: