PROVIDING AUTHORIZATION AND AUTHENTICATION IN A CLOUD FOR A USER OF A STORAGE ARRAY

摘要

It is not handy for a user if he has to reauthenticate himself when he wants to access different arrays in a cloud storage. Therefor authorization and authentication is provided in a cloud for a user of a storage array. The following steps are executed: 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.