Rubrik Assigned Five Patents

Array integration for virtual machine backup
Rubrik, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,678,659) developed by Juniwal, Garvit, Mountain View, CA, and Nithrakashyap, Arvind, San Francisco, CA, for an “array integration for virtual machine backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and systems for improving the performance of a primary system that is running one or more virtual machines and capturing snapshots of the one or more virtual machines over time are described. The performance penalty on the primary system when a hypervisor running the one or more virtual machines is used to capture the snapshots of the one or more virtual machines may be reduced by leveraging storage array snapshots to reduce the amount of time that the hypervisor must freeze virtual disks of the one or more virtual machines. In this case, changed block tracking information for changed data blocks associated with the snapshots may be acquired from the hypervisor and the changed data blocks themselves may be pulled from the storage array snapshots without requiring the hypervisor to keep the virtual disks of the one or more virtual machines in a frozen state.”

The patent application was filed on December 12, 2017 (15/839,526).

Deduplication of virtual machine content
Rubrik, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,678,448) developed by Jain, Arvind, Los Altos, CA, Mazumdar, Soham, San Francisco, CA, and Botelho, Fabiano, San Ramon, CA, for a “deduplication of virtual machine content.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and systems for managing, storing, and serving data within a virtualized environment are described. In some embodiments, a data management system may manage the extraction and storage of virtual machine snapshots, provide near instantaneous restoration of a virtual machine or one or more files located on the virtual machine, and enable secondary workloads to directly use the data management system as a primary storage target to read or modify past versions of data. The data management system may allow a virtual machine snapshot of a virtual machine stored within the system to be directly mounted to enable substantially instantaneous virtual machine recovery of the virtual machine.”

The patent application was filed on November 6, 2017 (15/804,382).

Container based application reification
Rubrik, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,656,937) developed by Raghavan, Ajaykrishna, Santa Clara, CA, Thakur, Tarun, Fremont, CA, and Sarkar, Prasenjit, Los Gatos, CA, for a “container based application reification.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for container based application reification. In a particular embodiment, an application reification system is provided including one or more computer readable storage media and a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media. The application reification system further includes program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media that, when read and executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to preserve a version of application data at a first time and a configuration of an application at the first time. At a second time subsequent to the first time, the program instructions direct the processing system to create a template for a container containing the application in the configuration and a pointer to the version of the application data in a secondary storage repository.”

The patent application was filed on June 26, 2019 (16/453,214).

Blobstore system for management of large data objects
Rubrik, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,621,046) developed by Derryberry, Jonathan, San Jose, CA, for a “blobstore system for the management of large data objects.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and systems for backing up and restoring different point in time versions of a virtual machine, an application, a database, or an electronic file using independently managed snapshot chains are described. In some cases, different point in time versions of a virtual machine may be captured and stored using one or more snapshot chains. Each snapshot chain may correspond with a base image (e.g., a full image snapshot) and one or more incremental files (e.g., two forward incremental files) that derive from the base image. A snapshot chain may be split into a plurality of shards or sub-chains such that the width of each shard or the maximum data size of the files in each shard is less than a threshold data size (e.g., is less than 1 TB). Data operations, (e.g., consolidation and reverse operations) may be performed on the individual shards or sub-chains in parallel.”

The patent application was filed on December 8, 2017 (15/835,459).

On-demand provisioning of customized developer environments
Rubrik, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,606,661) developed by Dao, Stefan, Cupertino, CA, To, Kenny, Santa Clara, CA, and Yeh, Pete, Cupertino, CA, for an “on-demand provisioning of customized developer environments.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and techniques are provided for managing and creating customized testing and development environments by a custom environment manager for computer or data management systems. In a specific implementation, the custom environment manager includes request receivers that receive orders associated with a prioritization from custom environment requestors and store the received orders in a request queue that holds multiple orders having different prioritizations and made by different requestors. The custom environment manager also includes pooled resource managers that track available virtual and physical computing resources needed to build custom environments. The custom environment manager also includes configurators that create custom environments based upon prioritization of the orders and available resources and return the custom environment to the requestor of the order.”

The patent application was filed on December 15, 2017 (15/844,253).