Cohesity Assigned Patent

Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,620,883) developed by Cai, Zheng, Cupertino, CA, Bajaj, Rupesh, Dewas, India, Manjunath, Chinmaya, Arun, Anand, and Thomas, Markose, San Jose, CA, for “multi-format migration for network attached storage devices and virtual machines.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method and system for migrating data are described. A storage capture instance in a first format from a first type of device is received. Processing utilized to back up the storage capture instance to a second format of a snapshot tree is distributed to multiple storage nodes. A request to migrate at least part of the storage capture instance to a second type of device in a third format is received. In response to the request, processing utilized to migrate the at least part of the storage capture instance from the second format to the second type of device in the third format is distributed to the storage nodes. In one aspect, file(s) in a first network attached storage (NAS) device format are migrated to a second NAS device format. In another aspect, a virtual machine (VM) and/or file(s) therein having a first VM format are migrated to a second VM format.”

The patent application was filed on January 25, 2019 (16/257,689).