Zerto Assigned Three Patents

Multiple points in time disk images for disaster recovery
Zerto Ltd., Herzilya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,649,868) developed by Or, Tomer Ben, Givat Haim Ichud, Israel, Barash, Gil, Burshan, Chen, and Kedem, Ziv, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “multiple points in time disk images for disaster recovery.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An enterprise disaster recovery system, including at least one data disk, a processor for running at least one data application that reads data from the at least one data disk and writes data to the at least one data disk over a period of time, a recovery test engine that (i) generates in parallel a plurality of processing stacks corresponding to a respective plurality of previous points in time within the period of time, each stack operative to process a command to read data at a designated address from a designated one of the at least one data disk and return data at the designated address in an image of the designated data disk at the previous point in time corresponding to the stack, and (ii) that generates in parallel a plurality of logs of commands issued by the at least one data application to write data into designated addresses of designated ones of the plurality of data disks, each log corresponding to a respective previous point in time, wherein the plurality of previous points in time within the period of time are specified arbitrarily by a user of the system.”

The patent application was filed on June 27, 2016 (15/194,097).

Hypervisor virtual server and method for providing data services
Zerto Ltd., Herzilya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,649,799) developed by Kedem, Ziv, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “hypervisor virtual server system, and method for providing data services within a hypervisor virtual server system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A hypervisor virtual server system, including a plurality of virtual servers, a plurality of virtual disks that are read from and written to by the plurality of virtual servers, a physical disk, an I/O backend coupled with the physical disk and in communication with the plurality of virtual disks, which reads from and writes to the physical disk, a tapping driver in communication with the plurality of virtual servers, which intercepts I/O requests made by any one of said plurality of virtual servers to any one of said plurality of virtual disks, and a virtual data services appliance, in communication with the tapping driver, which receives the intercepted I/O write requests from the tapping driver, and that provides data services based thereon.”

The patent application was filed on March 3, 2011 (13/039,446).

Providing hypervisor level data services for server virtualization
Zerto Ltd., Herzilya, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,642,637) developed by Kedem, Ziv, Levonai, Gil, Tel Aviv, Israel, Kuszpet, Yair, Netanya, Israel, and Burshan, Chen Yehezkel, Tel Aviv, Israel, for “methods and apparatus for providing hypervisor level data services for server virtualization.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system for cloud-based data services for multiple enterprises, including a plurality of cloud hypervisors that cooperatively provide cloud-based services to multiple enterprises, each hypervisor including a plurality of cloud virtual servers, each cloud virtual server being associated with an enterprise, at least one cloud virtual disk that is read from and written to by the at least one virtual server, each cloud virtual disk being associated with an enterprise, and a virtual data services appliance, which provides cloud-based data services, and multiple data services managers, one data services manager per respective enterprise, each of which coordinates the respective virtual data services appliances for those cloud hypervisors that service its corresponding enterprise.”

The patent application was filed on August 20, 2015 (14/831,623).