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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
William C. Souhrada, Southhampton, NY (US);
Fernando Matos, Hellertown, PA (US);
Marianne Aubry, Saint-Paul de Vence, FR;
B. Stephen Currie, Harleysville, PA (US);
Aram Avetisyan, Brno, CZ;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes: receiving communications from first and second tenants of a multi-tenant computing environment over first and second dedicated networks, respectively, the communications being transmitted to a first globally unique IP address in first and second dedicated environments, respectively; NATing the first globally unique IP address, to which the communication from the first tenant was transmitted, to a first non-globally unique IP address that is locally unique in the service provider environment; NATing the first globally unique IP address, to which the communication from the second tenant was transmitted, to a second non-globally unique IP address that is locally unique in the service provider environment; providing the communication from the first tenant and the communication from the second tenant access to a shared resource in the service provider environment using the first and second non-globally unique IP addresses, respectively.