Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Stephen Walsh

Boris Farizon

Samuil Shmuylovich

Evgeny Roytman

Sadagopan Balaraman

Benjamin Thrift

Eddie Pavkovic

Gregory MacKinnon

Stefan Voss

Terrence Lewis

Anthony Mullen

Allen Yen

Steven M Stramaglia

Andrew VanDamme

Yogesh Athawale

Described is a system for secure management of recovery data for data protection assets such as backup data and a backup application of a production backup system. The system may provide the ability to synchronize and secure critical recovery data of an isolated recovery environment. Accordingly, the system may reduce the breadth of potential cyber security attack vectors and increase the likelihood of efficiently recovering critical data and/or applications. To provide such capabilities, the system may only activate a data connection between a production system and a recovery system when synchronizing recovery data. In addition, the system may apply a retention lock to maintain a set of immutable copies of the recovery data and may restore the recovery data to a sandboxed environment where it may be tested and verified before being deployed to the production system as part of a recovery process.

Secure synchronization and management of recovery data for backup systems

A custom host naming mechanism that allows a user to define a custom host name as a virtual name for the hosts in the managed information environment, such as the storage area network, overcomes the shortcomings of the use of a network assigned machine name during a failover operation. The custom host naming mechanism allows the operator to define a mnemonic virtual name for each host in the managed information environment, thereby facilitating failover switching. Further, such secondary hosts may undertake offline, lower priority executing tasks while not in failover mode, and rapidly reconfigure as the failover secondary host should the need arise. Therefore, secondary hosts at a hot site deploy with a mnemonically descriptive name indicative of their status as a secondary host for a corresponding primary host, and further, need not remain idle pending a disaster recovery scenario, but rather are employable for offloading of other, lower priority tasks pending failover response.

System and methods for host naming in a managed information environment

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Stephen Walsh