International Business Machines Corporation

Matthew D McClintock

Ching-Yun Chao

Hugh Edward Hockett

Ajay Arvind Apte

Scott Christopher Moonen

John Yow-Chun Chang

Ki Hong Park

Yuhsuke Kaneyasu

Lewis Lo

Leonardo A Uzcategui

Rohan Gandhi

Barbara J Vander Weele

Ankit Patel

Kin Ueng

Patrick L Davis

Iqbal M Umair

A first management node of a first rack can be registered to a shared file storage system by establishing a mutual trust relationship between the first management node and the shared file storage system. The first management node can access a plurality of respective public keys and a plurality of respective certificates of authority that are stored in the shared file storage system and associated with a plurality of respective registered management nodes. The first management node can store a public key and a certificate of authority in the shared file storage system. The first management node can form mutual trust relationships with other registered management nodes. The first management node can validate authenticity of messages received from registered management nodes of the plurality of registered management nodes using a respective public key and a respective certificate of authority associated with a respective registered management node sending a message.

Trust relationship management amongst racks in a data center

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Morrisville, NC, United States of America

Matthew D McClintock