公开(公告)号：EP1407342A2

公开(公告)日：2004-04-14

申请号：EP02782505.8

申请日：2002-06-14

申请人： Cable & Wireless Internet Services, Inc.

发明人： EIDLER, Chris ,  FULLER, William, T. ,  BERMAN, Steve ,  HANLY, Michael ,  JOYNER, Reece ,  VAN HOOSER, Barry ,  CONROY, Pat

IPC分类号： G06F1/00

CPC分类号： H04L63/10 ,  G06F21/6227 ,  G06F21/6245 ,  H04L63/101

摘要： A secure shared storage infrastructure accessible by more than one customer is separated into a plurality of logical storage areas. A customer is associated with at least one logical storage area within the shared storage infrastructure. The customer and its logical storage areas are associated with at least one port in the shared storage infrastructure. Each customer has access only to the logical storage areas associated with the customer and cannot access the logical storage areas of any other customer.

公开(公告)号：EP1435049A2

公开(公告)日：2004-07-07

申请号：EP02752239.0

申请日：2002-07-09

申请人： Cable & Wireless Internet Services, Inc.

发明人： FULLER, William, T. ,  POWERS, David ,  NITTENBERG, Alan ,  DURHAM, Michael ,  JOYNER, Reece ,  VAN HOOSER, Barry ,  VAN HOOSER, Barry ,  TA, Lieu, T.

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： H04L63/101 ,  G06F17/30082 ,  G06F17/30235 ,  H04L67/1097

摘要： In a shared storage infrastructure accessible by more than one customer, the shared storage infrastructure is separated into a plurality of logical storage areas. A customer is associated with at least one logical storage area within the shared storage infrastructure. The customer and its logical storage areas are associated with at least one port in the shared storage infrastructure. Eaach customer has access only to the logical storage areas associated with the customer and cannot access the logical storage areas of any other customer. The shared storage infrastructure provides policy based storage management to each customer, that is, each customer appears to have access to a non-shared storage subsystem. By providing a virtualization layer, a customer may be given the ability to manage its own storage needs.