Comm Vault Systems, Inc.

Ca, Inc.

Paul Puthur Ignatius

Anand Prahlad

Mahesh Tyagarajan

David Alan Oshinsky

Andreas May

Rajiv Kottomtharayil

Avinash Kumar

Arun Amarendran

Manoj Vijayan Retnamma

Arun Prasad Amarendran

Hui Li

Manoj Kumar Vijayan

Srinivas Kavuri

Varghese Devassy

Sarad Thapa

Shankar R Iyer

Eric Harless

Robert Wu

Marjorie H Theisen

Liu Shisheng

Varghese Devassey

Shankar I Iyer

Data recovery from a cyber-attack is expedited based on data storage management integration with cyber threat deception. A cyber threat detection and deception system analyzes a 'deposit' placed by an attacker at a deception trap, identifies distinguishing attributes of the deposit, and determines which subset of real data assets may be at risk, preferably based on subnet/VLAN proximity to the attacker's deposit. By focusing immediate attention on the subset of at-risk assets, a data storage management system shortens the amount of time needed to identify safe copies and components and to prepare them for recovery. Storage operations involving the at-risk assets are suspended and users are not shown at-risk assets and cannot invoke recovery or copy operations for them. Without the focus on at-risk assets provided by the cyber threat detection and deception system, the data storage management system would take much longer to navigate its backup data stores.

Expedited recovery based on data storage management integration with cyber threat deception

A method for brokering a cloud service comprises receiving a request for a service and identifying parameters from the request. Further, a set of vendors who may satisfy the parameters of the requested service is identified. An invitation to respond based on the parameters is transmitted to the set of vendors. Responses including an estimation regarding the parameters are received from the vendors, and confidence levels that the vendors will meet the estimations are calculated based on an objective service history of the specific services. The responses and confidence levels are presented to the requester, and the service history is updated based on parameter results once the service has completed.

Service broker for service-oriented architecture

A data retrieval system comprising a first computing device communicatively coupled to a second computing device; the first computing device having a processor that supports operation of at least one software application that is used for retrieving data; the second computing device communicatively coupled to one or more storage media; the software application having a retrieval module for retrieving data from the one or more storage media; a storage and backup map that maps to the second computing device; and a data index stored on the second computing device that indicates to the retrieval module a particular location of the data that is to be retrieved by the retrieval module.

Systems and methods for retrieving data in a computer network

In accordance with embodiments of the invention, a method is provided for performing a storage operation in a pipeline storage system in which one or more data streams containing data to be stored are written into data chunks. The method includes generating an encryption key associated with a first archive file to be stored when encryption is requested for the storage operation, encrypting the archive data from the data stream using the encryption key to create an encrypted data chunk when a data stream containing the archive file is processed in the pipeline storage system, storing the encrypted data chunk on a storage medium, and storing the encryption key in a manner accessible during a restore operation of the encrypted data chunk.

System and method for providing encryption in storage operations in a storage network, such as for use by application service providers that provide data storage services

In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes receiving second information about second data stored on a second device. The method also includes determining that the second data is associated with first data stored on a first device. The method further includes, based on the determination about the second data, associating the second data with a policy for backing up a particular type of data. The method further includes initiating a transfer of one or more copies of the second data to a second one or more storage medias defined by the policy.

System and method for backing up data

The system and method for providing assured recovery and replication described herein may recover a master data source from a replica data source without impacting the master data source or the replica data source, and without having to install a standby version of an application associated with the master data source. In particular, a master snapshot may be created to copy application data stored in the master data source, wherein a replication server confirms that the replica data source can recover the master data source if the master snapshot and the replica data source are consistent. The replication server may create a replica snapshot to copy the replica data source and assign an identity associated with the master data source to the replica data source to recover the master data source. As such, replication may be resumed on a virtual machine disk file associated with the replica snapshot.

System and method for providing assured recovery and replication

A communications system having a data transfer pipeline apparatus for transferring data in a sequence of N stages from an origination device to a destination device. The apparatus comprises dedicated memory having buffers dedicated for carrying data and a master control for registering and controlling processes associated with the apparatus for participation in the N stage data transfer sequence. The processes include a first stage process for initiating the data transfer and a last Nth stage process for completing data transfer. The first stage process allocates a buffer from a predetermined number of buffers available within the memory for collection, processing, and sending of the data from the origination device to a next stage process. The Nth stage process receives a buffer allocated to the first stage process from the (N&#x2212;1)th stage and to free the buffer upon processing completion to permit reallocation of the buffer.

Pipeline systems and method for transferring data in a network environment

The invention provides a system and method for storing a copy of data stored in an information store. In one embodiment, a data agent reads one or more blocks containing the data from the information store. The data agent maps the one or more blocks to provide a mapping of the blocks, and transmits the one or more blocks and mapping to a media agent for a storage device. The media agent stores the one or more blocks in the storage device according to the mapping.

Systems and methods for transferring data in a block-level storage operation

Method and system for transferring data in a storage operation

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Paul Puthur Ignatius