Actifio, Inc.

Actifo, Inc.

Yong-Min Chen

Dongjun Sun

Madhav Mutalik

Yeganjaiah Gottemukkula

Ankur Bhargava

Micah Waldman

Uday Tekade

Sachindra Kumar

Xiangdong Zhang

Boris Vladimir Protopopov

Tracy Melbourne Taylor

Ashok Thittapullimadam Ramu

Bhargava Kumar Kancherla

James Charles Washburn, Jr

Jacqueline M Smith

Jeffrey McNeil

Qiang Fu

Systems and methods of enabling a service level agreement to specify interactions between an application and a remotely located object store that manages data as objects. A computing device receives data associated with a request to write application data to an object store according to a schedule, wherein the data is file system data. The computing device creates a snapshot associated with the requested application at a snapshot pool, and transmits instructions to a cloud formatting engine to create a virtual disk at a storage pool associated with an object store. The computing device copies the snapshot from the snapshot pool to the virtual disk, the snapshot comprising file system data and transmits instructions to the cloud formatting engine to convert the data associated with the first snapshot into an object, and move the object from the virtual disk to the object store.

Vault to object store

Techniques disclosed herein provide for global management of a set of data management services being executed by at least one of one or more physical data management appliances and one or more virtual data management appliances. First instructions are transmitted to a first copy data management appliance that cause the first copy data management appliance to send first data associated with protecting a first application entity to the management server. Second instructions are transmitted to a second copy data management appliance that cause the second copy data management appliance to send second data associated with protecting a second application entity to the management server. A plurality of data management policies associated with the first copy data management appliance and the second copy data management appliance are scheduled using a third service level template, which includes a merged set of schedules for the first and second copy data management appliances.

Methods and apparatus for managing a large-scale environment of copy data management appliances

Systems and methods are provided for automating a provision of applications from a source to a target by providing a virtual copy of application data, wherein the virtual copy can be adapted to a plurality of different target environments. Versions of source application data from an application database at a source production server are maintained at times associated with a schedule. Data associated with a request is received from a user to provision the source application data for a target environment at a target server, the request further comprising application specific parameters that define necessary requirements for the target environment. A virtual copy of the source application data is presented to the target server. Instructions to the target server are transmitted that define how to restore an operational server database from the virtual copy based on the application specific parameters to meet the requirements of the target environment.

Data provisioning techniques

Techniques are disclosed for preventing a user from configuring a service level agreement from creating a data management schedule that creates a set of data backups that exceeds data resource limits available for storing the set of data backups. A first amount of pool resources associated with the backup of each of the at least one application is determined according to a received schedule. A first amount of data volumes associated with the backup of each of the at least one application is determined according to the received schedule. A resource shortage warning is transmitted when the aggregate amount of pool resources exceeds an available amount of pool resources or the aggregate amount of data volume resource exceeds an available amount of data volume resource, thereby preventing a user from configuring a service level agreement that exceeds data resource limits.

Guardrails for copy data storage

Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing operational data records in a manner that reduces redundant copying of data. A set of operational data records is stored, wherein each data record is assigned a unique ID in ascending order based on a creation time of the data record. A highest unique ID is identified from the operational data records in the set of operational data records. A tolerance number is identified that is indicative of a range of unique IDs that can be processed at a same time such that it cannot be guaranteed that operational data records with unique IDs separated by less than the tolerance number were assigned unique IDs in the order that the operational data records were created. A synchronization ID is calculated comprising subtracting the tolerance number from the highest unique ID. The synchronization ID is transmitted to the source operational data store.

System and method for efficient database record replication using different replication strategies based on the database records

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Waltham, MA, United States of America

Yong-Min Chen