ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,665, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Cascaded replication" was invented by Nadav Halwany (Tel Aviv, Israel), Benny Lodman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ohad Ben-Yehuda (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Oren Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for asynchronous replication, the method includes initiating a current replication cycle of multiple files system entities (FSEs) that include primary FESs originated from a primary storage system (PSS) and external FSEs that originated from one or more external storage systems (ESSs), each external storage system differs from the primary storage...