Commvault has filed suit against data management upstarts Cohesity and Rubrik, alleging patent infringement. It is seeking injunctive relief and unspecified monetary damages. The patents in question concern data management technologies including cloud, data deduplication, snapshots, search, security and virtualization. Commvault alleges that Rubrik and Cohesity have appropriated Commvault-patented inventions to short-circuit their development processes and minimise the investment required […]

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