Nakivo Assigned Patent
Instantiation of VMs from backups
By Francis Pelletier | March 7, 2019 at 2:26 pmNakivo, Inc., Sparks, NV, has been assigned a patent (10,204,019) developed by Talley, Bruce, Campbell, CA, Osypov, Oleksii Serhiovych, Kiev, Ukraine, Abdallah, Nail Ahmad Amin, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Simonov, Veniamin Serhiovych, and Serdyuk, Serhiy, Kiev, Ukraine, for “systems and methods for instantiation of virtual machines from backups.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Technologies including computer implemented methods and systems are described herein for providing instantiation of virtual machines from backups. Systems and methods disclosed herein do not require restoring the complete contents of a virtual machine from a backup prior to using the virtual machine. Systems and methods presented herein allow creating and running a virtual machine directly from a virtual machine backup. Virtual machines created and maintained by the virtual machine instantiation system may be, in turn, used for backup consistency testing, disaster recovery testing, or granular item-level restore.”
The patent application was filed on September 8, 2015 (14/847,104).











