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Managing services in a cloud computing environment

  • US 8,910,278 B2
  • Filed: 05/18/2011
  • Issued: 12/09/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing computational services in a cloud computing network, the method comprising:

  • executing a software component to interact with multiple third-party cloud providers using at least one ofa platform as a service (PaaS),an infrastructure as a service (laaS),a network as a service (NaaS), ora combination thereof,the interacting occurring via each respective third-party cloud provider'"'"'s proprietary programming interfaces while exposing only one common access point to an organization via a common interface;

    creating and managing, via custom organization workflows within the multiple third-party cloud providers, a trusted virtual network including encrypted data storage, encrypted data transport, and trusted instances of servers all communicatively coupled together forming a trusted cloud computing environment that is associated with the organization, the creating including storing keys for the encrypted data storage, keys for the encrypted data transport, and session keys associated with a user of the organization in an encrypted database that is separate from an operational computing environment and all within the trusted computing environment where the user is not allowed access to the keys, and whereby the organization manages applications and databases within the trusted virtual network governed by the custom organization workflows which include policies, with an identified group of users in the organization, required to allocate resources in the trusted computing cloud environment;

    executing, on a web server, a web portal to provide a point of access to the third-party cloud computing environment; and

    using access control to the trusted cloud computing environment to ensure access by users authorized by the organization and to ensure compliance with adopted standards.

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