US Patent Issued to Nutanix on March 17 for "Managing reference snapshots across multiple sites for efficient failover/failback" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,043, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Managing reference snapshots across multiple sites for efficient failover/failback" was invented by Kai Tan (Cary, N.C.), Karthikeyan Vaideswaran (Morrisville, N.C.), Pranab Patnaik (Cary, N.C.) and Ramya Uthamarajan (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique provides network efficient data failover by explicitly protecting one or more common snapshot references at sites of a multi-site data replication environment to improve granularity of control of recovery point objectives (RPO) for data across the sites. A common snapshot reference or recover...