Bacula Systems Receives Backup and Recovery Deduplication Patent
Summary
The patent covers deduplication technology integrated into Bacula Enterprise for physical, virtual, container and cloud environments, all in a single platform for backing up and restoring corporate data. Strengthening its leadership in high-performance backup and recovery for enterprises and managed service providers, Bacula Systems announced that the United States Patent Office has granted a patent to meet the growing industry needs for efficient data deduplication. 10,467,197 is intended to create a universal deduplicated archive volume and is a key part of the complete data deduplication process for data backup and recovery in the fastest and most efficient way. This advanced deduplication method was invented by Dr. Kern Sibbald, who created and developed code for use in mission-critical environments of large enterprises. “The patent obtained confirms Bacula Systems leadership in developing backup and recovery solutions for large and demanding IT environments,” said Frank Barker, CEO of Bacula Systems.