US Patent Issued to NetApp on June 23 for "Managing volume snapshots in the cloud" (California, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,124, issued on June 23, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Managing volume snapshots in the cloud" was invented by Kiyoshi Komatsu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ardalan Kangarlou (Raleigh, N.C.), Richard Swift (Pittsburgh), Rajesh Rajaraman (Waltham, Mass.) and Ling Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for creating, deleting, and restoring volume snapshots in a remote data store are disclosed. A storage volume and a storage operating system are implemented in a software container. Through a user interface, a user may create a snapshot of the volume to a cloud storag...