David Allen Feathergill

TL;DR: Backup systems and methods are disclosed for a virtual computing environment as discussed by the authors, where the backup management server coordinates with the host server to perform backup copies of entire virtual machine disks from outside the guest operating system of the virtual machine.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a backup proxy server that intercepts application programming interface (API) calls, for writing backup data to a first location, prior to the data arriving on the proxy disk.

TL;DR: Hybrid replication systems and methods for a virtual computing environment utilize snapshot rotation and differential replication as discussed by the authors, where data modifications intended for a source virtual machine disk (VMDK) are captured by a primary snapshot.

TL;DR: Multitier data deduplication as mentioned in this paper can reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage resources used during the data partitioning process by filtering out inactive data blocks during or before performing the partitioning.

TL;DR: In this paper, a management server is configured to inject dependencies such as binary data, over a network to the host system for performing a requested operation, such as a backup or compression operation on virtual machine data.