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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2012
Asaf Cidon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gopal Madan Prabandham, Los Altos, CA (US);
Israel Cidon, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shetty Chandrashekhar, Naperville, IL (US);
Lior Gavish, San Francisco, CA (US);
Barak Srour, Mountain View, CA (US);
Asaf Cidon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gopal Madan Prabandham, Los Altos, CA (US);
Israel Cidon, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shetty Chandrashekhar, Naperville, IL (US);
Lior Gavish, San Francisco, CA (US);
Barak Srour, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sookasa Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for file management, the method may include: calculating, by a management server that is located within a cloud computing environment, signatures of multiple files that are stored at multiple storage entities; and finding, by the management server, groups of similar files out of the multiple files, wherein the finding is in response to similarities between signatures of the multiple files; wherein the multiple storage entities comprise at least a first storage entity that is managed by a first management entity and a second storage entity that is managed by a second management entity that differs from the first management entity.