Actifio Assigned Patent

Actifio, Inc., Waltham, MA, has been assigned a patent (9,495,435) developed by Zhang, Xiangdong, Wellesley, MA, Mutalik, Madhav, Southborough, MA, and Kumar, Sachindra, Framingham, MA, for a “system and method for intelligent database backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods are provided for backing up database storage. A protection policy for database storage is activated at a remote host, wherein the database storage is not physically accessible by the computing device, such that the out-of-band storage is not in communication with the remote host through the computing device. A backup request is transmitted to the remote host comprising data indicative of a volume on the database storage to back up according to the protection policy. A response to the backup request is received comprising staging disk requirements including a required size for a staging disk. A staging disk is determined based on the response. The staging disk is presented to the remote host so that the remote host can perform a backup of the volume to the staging disk using a database backup tool provided by a vendor of the database storage.“

The patent application was filed on June 18, 2013 (13/920,950).