US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on July 29 for "Restoring virtual machine data to cloud using a virtual server cloud file system" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,308, issued on July 29, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Restoring virtual machine data to cloud using a virtual server cloud file system" was invented by Henry Wallace Dornemann (Eatontown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Uploads of restored virtual machine ("VM") data to cloud storage, e.g., VM restore-to-cloud operations, are performed without having to write whole restored virtual disk files to a proxy server before the virtual disk data begins uploading to cloud. Restored data blocks from a backup source are locally cached, staged for efficiency, and asynchronously uploaded to the cloud page-by-p...