US Patent Issued to Cohesity on April 22 for "Generating standby cloud versions of a virtual machine" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,397, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating standby cloud versions of a virtual machine" was invented by Namit Sharma (San Jose, Calif.) and Vipin Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contents of a full snapshot for storage in one or more cloud storage volumes are received. The contents of the full snapshot is stored in the one or more cloud storage volumes. A snapshot of a virtual machine data volume and a snapshot of a virtual machine boot volume are generated based on the contents of the full snapshot stored in the one or more cloud storage volumes. An image of the virtu...