US 2012/0072985 A1 · MANAGING SERVICES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

What is provided are a system and method which enables an organization or user to manage computational services in a cloud computing network for security, compliance and governance. The management including creating a trusted virtual network including encrypted data storage, encrypted data transport, and trusted instances of servers all communicatively coupled together forming a trusted cloud computing environment that is associated with the organization. A web portal running on a web server provides a point of access to the cloud computing environment. A workflow is accessed to implement one or more policies in trusted computing environment to manage the trusted cloud computing environment, the workflow customized to the organization. The access control; and to the trusted cloud computing environment is used to ensure access by users authorized by the organization to ensure compliance with adopted standards.

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Dependent claims

A method for managing computational services in a cloud computing network comprising:

creating, within at least one third-party cloud computing environment, a trusted virtual network including encrypted data storage, encrypted data transport, and trusted instances of servers all communicatively coupled together forming a trusted cloud computing environment that is associated with at least one organization;
executing on a web server a web portal to provide a point of access to the third-party cloud computing environment;
accessing at least one workflow to implement one or more policies in trusted computing environment to manage the trusted cloud computing environment, the workflow customized to the organization;
and
using access control to the trusted cloud computing environment, to ensure access by users authorized by the organization to ensure compliance with adopted standards.

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An electronic device, the electronic device comprising:

a memory;
a processor communicatively coupled to the memory;
and
a web portal communicatively coupled to the memory and the processor, the web portal configured to perform:
creating, within at least one third-party cloud computing environment, a trusted virtual network including encrypted data storage, encrypted data transport, and trusted instances of servers all communicatively coupled together forming a trusted cloud computing environment that is associated with at least one organization;
executing on the web server a web portal to provide a point of access to the cloud computing environment;
accessing at least one workflow to implement one or more policies in trusted computing environment to manage the trusted cloud computing environment, the workflow customized to the organization;
and
using access control to the trusted cloud computing environment, to ensure access by users authorized by the organization to ensure compliance with adopted standards.

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A computer program product comprising:

a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit configured to perform:
creating, within at least one third-party cloud computing environment, a trusted virtual network including encrypted data storage, encrypted data transport, and trusted instances of servers all communicatively coupled together forming a trusted cloud computing environment that is associated with at least one organization;
executing on a web server a web portal to provide a point of access to the cloud computing environment;
accessing at least one workflow to implement one or more policies in trusted computing environment to manage the trusted cloud computing environment, the workflow customized to the organization;
and
using access control to the trusted cloud computing environment, to ensure access by users authorized by the organization to ensure compliance with adopted standards.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Managing services in a cloud computing environment

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