Backup seller Actifio, frequently credited with popularizing the time period duplicate info administration, has accused Rubrik of copying its concepts.
Last week, Actifio submitted a lawsuit towards Rubrik declaring that Rubrik’s “Brik” appliances and Cloud Knowledge Administration software infringes on 4 of Actifio’s patents. The 4 patents are:
- U.S. Patent No. six,732,244, titled, “Quick Virtual Duplicate Approach with Expedited Development of Backup Dataset Stock from Supply Dataset Stock”
- U.S. Patent No. six,959,369, titled, “Method, Procedure, and System for Knowledge Backup”
- U.S. Patent No. 9,495,435, titled, “Procedure and Method for Clever Database Backup” and
- U.S. Patent No. ten,013,313, titled, “Built-in Database and Log Backup.”
Actifio desires Rubrik to quit building and advertising the infringing merchandise and seeks monetary damages, but did not specify an amount of money.
Actifio’s underlying technological know-how platform is its Virtual Knowledge Pipeline (VDP). VDP generates a virtualized golden duplicate of variations in creation info, which then gets to be the one info supply for several use instances. This improves efficiency since backup, disaster restoration (DR) and check/dev can all draw from this one info supply in its place of separate info silos particular to every single use situation. VDP also has created-in features for managing info existence cycle, deduplication and compression.
Rubrik’s Cloud Knowledge Administration brings together backup and restoration, replication, analytics and look for onto a one software platform. It can operate on the cloud or on Rubrik’s “Brik” appliances. Comparable to Actifio VDP, Rubrik’s platform is designed to be a one info supply for several use instances.
“Distributors who are gradual to innovate frequently resort to lawsuits to suppress sales and innovation of marketplace leaders. We believe there is no advantage to this grievance, and we intend to defend this lawsuit vigorously,” Rubrik president Dan Rogers stated in an email statement.
This is the second time this yr that Rubrik was sued for patent infringement. In April, backup market veteran Commvault submitted lawsuits towards Rubrik and Cohesity, alleging both of those firms infringed on Commvault’s patents. The grievance towards Rubrik claimed Rubrik’s Cloud Knowledge Administration software and “Brik” appliances infringed on 7 Commvault patents. Some of the technological know-how Rubrik is accused of lifting from Commvault incorporate, “Procedure and approach for undertaking an graphic stage snapshot and for restoring partial quantity info,” and “Procedure and approach for storage procedure obtain safety.”
Cohesity responded to that lawsuit with a very similar declare to Rogers’ present statement — that its accuser was working with lawsuits to assault its competitor’s sales.
“It is not unheard of for legacy suppliers to attempt to disrupt the disruptors with frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to stifle innovation and sales,” stated Lynn Lucas, chief internet marketing officer at Cohesity in an email statement.
Knowledge safety carries on to be a remarkably competitive and dynamic marketplace, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In accordance to exploration from Evaluator Team, info safety is between the leading three technological know-how investments that firms are building in reaction to the pandemic, together with safety and cloud infrastructure. Trader interest also has not stopped, as DR seller Zerto obtained $53 million in supplemental funding in June and tape seller Quantum discovered in its hottest earnings simply call that it secured an supplemental $20 million in liquidity from its lenders.
