Sepaton awarded data deduplication patent

Sepaton has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued U.S. Patent No. 8,447,741, entitled, “System and Method for Providing Data Driven De-duplication Services.” This patented method enables Sepaton to sort through massive amounts of data and quickly find exact matches within the data to de-duplicate as efficiently as possible.

This invention is the result of years of research into optimising data deduplication techniques for complex enterprise environments and data types and further establishes Sepaton as the leader in this area. This new patent joins 12 other Sepaton patents covering the building blocks for enterprise data protection.

“As the inventors of enterprise data deduplication technology, we continue to expand our portfolio of intellectual property covering the core techniques required to provide a scalable, reliable, high-performing intelligent data protection platform,” said Jeff Tofano, chief technology officer, Sepaton. “Sepaton has the highest single system capacity of any backup appliance purpose-built for large enterprise. Sepaton’s ContentAware technology uses different algorithms to perform deduplication depending on the data type and the backup application to achieve the industry’s most efficient capacity optimisation for all data types.”