Patent ID: 9483361
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information management cell with failover management capability, comprising: a plurality of computing devices comprising computer hardware, the plurality of computing devices including at least one client computing device and at least one secondary storage computing device; the client computing device having installed thereon one or more applications, first data protection software, and second data protection software, the computer hardware of the secondary storage computing device programmed to act as an interface between the client computing device and one or more secondary storage devices during secondary copy operations, at the direction of the remote storage manager that is geographically remote from the information management cell, wherein the computer hardware of the client computing device is programmed via the first data protection software to, at the direction of a remote storage manager that is geographically remote from the client computing device, process data generated by the one or more applications according to a first secondary copy file format, wherein the computer hardware of the client computing device is programmed via the second data protection software to, at the direction of a failover storage manager installed on a computing device of the plurality of computing devices of the information management cell, to process data generated by the one or more applications according to a second secondary copy file format, wherein the failover storage manager is configured to, in the event of a loss of connectivity between the information management cell and the remote storage manager: