Pure Storage, Inc.

Jimmy T Hu

Daquan Zuo

Neil A Vachharajani

Terence W Noonan

Ethan L Miller

Constantine P Sapuntzakis

Benjamin P Borowiec

Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a storage array access module from a client-side array services module, a token representing authentication of user credentials and authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user, where the token is generated by a cloud-based security module upon authentication of the user credentials and identification of authorized access privileges for the user; receiving, by the storage array access module from the user, a user access request to one or more storage array services; and determining, by the storage array access module, whether to grant the user access request in dependence upon the authorized access privileges represented by the token.

Multi-array user authorization for cloud-based storage systems

Cloud-based user authorization control for storage system access

Managing a storage system, including: receiving, over a first network, user credentials associated with an access request to a storage system; sending, over a second network to a cloud-based security module, the user credentials; receiving, over the second network from the cloud-based security module, a token representing that the user credentials were successfully authenticated by the cloud-based security module; and sending, over the first network to the storage system, the token with a management instruction, wherein the storage system is not coupled for data communications to the cloud-based security module.

Using cloud services to provide secure access to a storage system

Storage array access control from cloud-based user authorization and authentication

Managing a storage array includes: receiving, by a client-side array services module from a cloud-based security module through data communications on a wide area network, a token representing authentication of user credentials; and managing, by the client-side array services module, a storage array only through data communications on a local area network, including sending, to the storage array, the token with a management instruction.

Cloud-based authentication of a storage system user

Hybrid cloud-based authentication for flash storage array access

Remote management of a storage array

Managing a storage array using client-side services

Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a cloud-based security module from a client-side array services module, user credentials; authenticating, by the cloud-based security module, the user credentials; identifying, by the cloud-based security module, authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user; generating, by the cloud-based security module, a token representing the authentication of the user credentials and the authorized access privileges; and providing, by the cloud-based security module to the client-side array services module, the token.

Delivering authorization and authentication for a user of a storage array from a cloud

Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array

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Foster City, CA, United States of America

Jimmy T Hu