CloudByte Assigned Patent
Tenant based storage security and service level assurance in cloud storage environment
By Francis Pelletier | October 9, 2015 at 2:34 pmCloudByte, Inc., Cupertino, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,141,785) developed by Mukkara, Umasankar, Xavier, Felix, Balaram, Srivibhavan, Bangalore, India, and Bam, Shailesh, Chaitraban Bibvewadi, India, for a “techniques for providing tenant based storage security and service level assurance in cloud storage environment.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques for tenant-bases storage security and service level assurances in a cloud environment are presented. A Tenant Storage Machine, TSM) for each tenant uses a unique identifier. The TSM is dynamically allocated with operating system resources to run processes based on agreed service level assurances. The service level assurances are stored in a Service Level Assurance, SLA) policy store. The TSM communicates with the SLA policy store via a TSM bus to acquire a SLA policy configured for the tenant and based on which resources are dynamically allocated. Processes running under the TSM run with root privileges to provide security.“
The patent application was filed on July 26, 2012 (13/558,626).
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