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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
May. 29, 2015
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin P. Borowiec, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jimmy T. Hu, Foster City, CA (US);
Ethan L. Miller, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Terence W. Noonan, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neil A. Vachharajani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daquan Zuo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
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.