US Patent Issued to Hitachi Vantara on July 28 for "Automated backup systems and methods for cloud environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,940, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Automated backup systems and methods for cloud environments" was invented by Kazuei Hironaka (Campbell, Calif.) and Hiroyuki Osaki (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods utilize a policy-based approach to automate data backup processes in hybrid cloud environments, ensuring adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) such as recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives. A centralized management application oversees storage and network resources, by using a policy interpreter module to analyze and apply predefined...