Dell Products Inc.

Michal Sara Davidson

Dominique Prunier

Shoham Levy

Alan Raymond White

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: submitting a request for a workload instance to a cloud service provider; establishing a secure communication channel between the cloud service provider and a data center monitoring and management console; exchanging information between the cloud service provider and the data center monitoring and management console via the secure communication channel, the information including a verifiable workload instance identity; and, using the verifiable workload instance identity to authenticate a workload instance provided by the cloud service provider.

Method and apparatus for external control planes to cryptographically trust software artifacts launched at public cloud providers

Techniques are provided for creating secure IO (input/output) user connections between IO users and storage volumes. One method comprises establishing an IO user connection between a processor-based IO user and at least a portion of a storage volume on a storage array; obtaining IO user context information associated with the IO user connection, wherein the IO user context information comprises one or more keys for signature verification; and transmitting one or more IO operations over the IO user connection, wherein a signature associated with a given IO operation is evaluated to verify that the signature is a valid signature of one or more of the processor-based IO user and the storage array. The obtained IO user context information may further comprise an identifier of a signature generation function that generates the signature associated with the given IO operation and a connection identity string identifying the IO user connection.

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Beit Shemesh, Israel

Michal Sara Davidson