US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on May 6 for "Live mounting a virtual machine in a public cloud based on accessing a simulated virtual disk as an internet small computer systems interface (ISCSI) target" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,210, issued on May 6, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Live mounting a virtual machine in a public cloud based on accessing a simulated virtual disk as an internet small computer systems interface (ISCSI) target" was invented by Sanjay Kumar (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A native cloud-based VM in a cloud computing environment of choice is live-mounted without requiring nesting techniques. All operating system data needed to live-mount the VM is accessed over ISCSI. The disclosed technology: supports both Windows and Unix-like (e.g., Linux) operating systems; handles any number of part...