US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on Feb. 10 for "Global de-duplication of virtual disks in a storage platform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,350, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Global de-duplication of virtual disks in a storage platform" was invented by Avinash Lakshman (Fremont, Calif.) and Gaurav Yadav (Mount View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to avoid writing duplicates of blocks of data into a storage platform, any virtual disk within the storage platform may have a de-duplication feature enabled. Or, all virtual disks have this feature enabled. For virtual disks with de-duplication enabled, a unique message digest is calculated for every block of data written to that virtual disk. Upon a write, thes...