Egnyte has been granted a patent for its method and system to implement an object storage infrastructure for cloud-based services, forming part of its Egnyte Object Store (EOS).
This technology ensures the right location for storing customer data is chosen, whether in Egnyte’s datacentre or a third-party data centre such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Storage, depending on the type of data, needs of the company and other parameters.
Additionally, this technology uses commodity storage to ensure the data is moved to the right place in a highly secure environment without having an impact on performance.
Now the process has been patented, it means Egnyte can work with third-party storage vendors to provide its EOS platform to their solutions, offering customers a wider selection of options for their data storage.
Egnyte said it's particularly useful for applications where an industry is highly regulated and a company’s data needs to be stored in a particular location.
“This is an important patent for our company and our customers. EOS is the lifeblood of Egnyte and is relied upon for managing multi-petabytes of our customers’ data, with support for native storage, as well as delegated storage into multiple third- party public clouds,” said Rajesh Ram, co-founder and chief customer officer at Egnyte. “The technology has allowed storage at scale to become technically and economically efficient at Egnyte, which is a major a competitive differentiator for our platform.”
Earlier this week, IBM announced the acquisition of object-based storage specialist Cleversafe to help it bring the function to its on-premise, cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures. However, Egnyte said IBM's offering is still behind its own, patented design.
