ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,870, issued on May 13, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"On-demand serverless disaster recovery" was invented by Dnyaneshwar Nagorao Pawar (Bangalore, India), Sumith Makam (Bangalore, India), Roopesh Chuggani (Rajasthan, India) and Tijin George (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for on-demand serverless disaster recovery. A primary node may host a primary volume. Snapshots of the primary volume may be backed up to an object store. In response to failure, a secondary node and/or an on-demand volume may be created on-demand. The secondary node may provide clients with failover acces...