Patents by Inventor DREW HOOVER STERNESKY

DREW HOOVER STERNESKY has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Enabling coarse-grained volume snapshots for virtual machine backup and restore
    Patent number: 9575991
    Abstract: A technique of backing up a workload in a virtual environment includes identifying one or more files that are associated with the workload. One or more source volumes that include the one or more files are identified. A respective target volume is provisioned for each of the one or more source volumes identified. Only dirty blocks are copied (in a snapshot mode that prevents an update to the one or more source volumes during the snapshot mode) from each of the one or more source volumes to its respective target volume. The one or more dirty blocks are then copied from each target volume to a backup medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul Ghosh, Aaron James Quirk, James Patrick Robbins, Drew Hoover Sternesky
  • Techniques for enabling coarse-grained volume snapshots for virtual machine backup and restore
    Patent number: 9477683
    Abstract: A technique of backing up a workload in a virtual environment includes identifying one or more files that are associated with the workload. One or more source volumes that include the one or more files are identified. A respective target volume is provisioned for each of the one or more source volumes identified. Only dirty blocks are copied (in a snapshot mode that prevents an update to the one or more source volumes during the snapshot mode) from each of the one or more source volumes to its respective target volume. The one or more dirty blocks are then copied from each target volume to a backup medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul Ghosh, Aaron James Quirk, James Patrick Robbins, Drew Hoover Sternesky
  • TECHNIQUES FOR ENABLING COARSE-GRAINED VOLUME SNAPSHOTS FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE BACKUP AND RESTORE
    Publication number: 20150363413
    Abstract: A technique of backing up a workload in a virtual environment includes identifying one or more files that are associated with the workload. One or more source volumes that include the one or more files are identified. A respective target volume is provisioned for each of the one or more source volumes identified. Only dirty blocks are copied (in a snapshot mode that prevents an update to the one or more source volumes during the snapshot mode) from each of the one or more source volumes to its respective target volume. The one or more dirty blocks are then copied from each target volume to a backup medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: RAHUL GHOSH, AARON JAMES QUIRK, JAMES PATRICK ROBBINS, DREW HOOVER STERNESKY
  • TECHNIQUES FOR ENABLING COARSE-GRAINED VOLUME SNAPSHOTS FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE BACKUP AND RESTORE
    Publication number: 20150347430
    Abstract: A technique of backing up a workload in a virtual environment includes identifying one or more files that are associated with the workload. One or more source volumes that include the one or more files are identified. A respective target volume is provisioned for each of the one or more source volumes identified. Only dirty blocks are copied (in a snapshot mode that prevents an update to the one or more source volumes during the snapshot mode) from each of the one or more source volumes to its respective target volume. The one or more dirty blocks are then copied from each target volume to a backup medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: RAHUL GHOSH, AARON JAMES QUIRK, JAMES PATRICK ROBBINS, DREW HOOVER STERNESKY