US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on July 15 for "Hyper visor-independent reference copies of virtual machine payload data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,861, issued on July 15, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Hyper visor-independent reference copies of virtual machine payload data" was invented by Vinit Dilip Dhatrak (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hypervisor-independent reference copies of virtual machine payload data based on block-level pseudo-mount infrastructure and techniques are generated and stored in an illustrative data storage management system. An illustrative hypervisor-independent reference copy includes one or more virtual-machine payload data files that originated from a first virtual machine. The hypervisor-independe...