Pure Storage, Inc.

Heritage Capital Corp.

Brian Carpenter

Ronald S Karr

Patrick D Lee

Andrew Kutner

Andrew Miller

David Huskisson

Emily Potyraj

Joshua P Robinson

Cynthia Dote

Paul Minshull

Brian Shipman

Ryan Sokol

Michael Weems

Jim Halperin

Matt Jackson

A method includes a data protection system determining, based on a first security threat detection process, that a storage system is possibly being targeted by a security threat; performing, based on the determining that the storage system is possibly being targeted by the security threat, a first remedial action with respect to the storage system, the first remedial action comprising generating a snapshot of data stored by the storage system; confirming, based on a second security threat detection process, whether the storage system is possibly being targeted by the security threat; and performing, based on the confirming whether the storage system is possibly being targeted by the security threat, a second remedial action with respect to the storage system, the second remedial action comprising specifying a retention duration with respect to the snapshot.

Ransomware detection using multiple security threat detection processes

Providing persistent storage to transient cloud computing services, including: creating a cloud computing instance, wherein the cloud computing instance is created on on-premises cloud infrastructure; and storing, in non-volatile storage in a storage system that is communicatively coupled to the on-premises cloud infrastructure, data associated with the cloud computing instance.

Providing non-volatile storage to cloud computing services

An illustrative method includes determining that a total amount of read traffic and write traffic processed by a storage system during a time period exceeds a threshold; determining a first compressibility metric associated with the write traffic; determining a second compressibility metric associated with the read traffic; determining, based on a comparison of the first compressibility metric with the second compressibility metric, that the write traffic is less compressible than the read traffic; determining, based on the total amount of read traffic and write traffic exceeding the threshold and on the write traffic being less compressible than the read traffic, that the storage system is possibly being targeted by a security threat; and modifying, in response to the determining that the storage system is possibly being targeted by the security threat, a data protection parameter set for one or more recovery datasets generated by the storage system.

Ransomware-based data protection parameter modification

Providing persistent storage to transient cloud computing services

An illustrative method includes a data protection system directing a storage system to generate recovery datasets over time in accordance with a data protection parameter set, the recovery datasets usable to restore data maintained by the storage system to a state corresponding to a selectable point in time, determining that the storage system is possibly being targeted by a security threat, and modifying, in response to the determining that the storage system is possibly being targeted by the security threat, the data protection parameter set for one or more of the recovery datasets.

Recovery dataset management for security threat monitoring

An auctioning method is conducted using an interactive auction host system. The method includes providing access for auction participants to a live auction for one or more auctioned lots of products or services that is conducted and overseen by an auction administrator at an auction host location. At least some of the access to the live auction is provided to remote auction participants through an auction host system of the auction host system. Data is transmitted substantially in real time from the auction host system, which may include auction-related data and at least one of video and audio feeds of the live auction through a network to one or more remote auction participants located at a remote participant interface. Information provided from the remote auction participants through the remote participant interface is provided and received by auction host system. At least one of various other actions are performed.

Live auctioning system and methods

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Frisco, TX, United States of America

Brian Carpenter