Symantec Corporation

Saurabh Sitaram Karmarkar

Ganesh Prabhakar Tambat

Aditya Anil Gokhale

Sujit Shrinivas Shembavnekar

Mohammed Eliyas Shaikh

Aswad Shrikrishna Kulkarni

Hrishikesh Arvind Date

Techniques for creating an encrypted hard disk are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for encrypting a virtual hard disk comprising creating a volume of data for the virtual hard disk and encrypting the volume of data using a predetermined encryption algorithm. The method may also comprise mounting, via at least one computer processor, the encrypted volume of data onto the virtual hard disk.

Techniques for creating an encrypted virtual hard disk

Various systems and methods for creating a clone using streaming restore. For example, one method can involve receiving a set of storage blocks that include data associated with a state of a source computing entity. The method then involves creating a clone of the source computer system at an endpoint computer system. The endpoint computer system creates the clone by restoring the storage blocks, which involves storing the storage blocks to a memory at the endpoint computer system. The created clone has a state that corresponds to the state of the source computer system.

Cloning using streaming restore

Techniques for booting from an encrypted hard disk are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for booting from an encrypted virtual hard disk comprising booting a computing device from an encrypted virtual hard disk in a booting environment and authenticating an encryption password associated with the encrypted virtual hard disk. The method may comprise decrypting, via at least one computer processor, the encrypted virtual hard disk using the encryption password based at least in part on an authentication of the encryption password.

Techniques for booting from an encrypted virtual hard disk

Techniques for data backup management are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for data backup management comprising identifying a base image for a plurality of data backup endpoints, creating, using at least one computer processor, a backup of the base image, storing the backup of the base image as a common backup for the plurality of data backup endpoints, and tracking changes to the base image at one or more of the plurality of data backup endpoints.

Growing community of inventors

Pune, India

Saurabh Sitaram Karmarkar