Multi-tenant Cloud Management for Private Device Clusters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional private cloud solutions require high capital and maintenance costs, as organizations must manage resources internally, and lack efficient scalability and data security, especially when implemented on a Local-Area Network (LAN) within an organization's firewall.
Innovation Solution
A system for secure cloud-based management of private cloud connected devices, which includes a multi-tenant cloud-based management service and a user interface, allowing third-party providers to manage resources while ensuring data security and integrity through secure protocols like HTTPS, and utilizing a rendezvous module for communication between untrusted and trusted domains.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If private cloud platforms are implemented on a LAN within an organization's firewall, then data security and control are improved, but capital and maintenance costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based management service as an intermediary between the organization and the private cloud infrastructure. This service handles resource provisioning, monitoring, and management tasks remotely, allowing the organization to maintain data security within their firewall while avoiding the high costs of internal management expertise and infrastructure.
2Reliability
If organizations manage cloud resources internally, then control and security are improved, but operational complexity and management burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex management functions (resource provisioning, monitoring, optimization) from the organization's internal operations and relocates them to a specialized cloud-based management service. This allows the organization to maintain control over their private cloud resources while offloading the operational complexity to an external service provider.
3Reliability
If private cloud storage services are implemented internally, then data security is improved, but scalability and flexibility are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal cloud-based management service that can manage multiple private cloud deployments across different organizations and environments. This service provides scalable resource allocation and flexible configuration options while maintaining the data security requirements of each individual organization through centralized yet secure management.
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AI summary
A system for secure cloud-based management of private cloud connected devices is provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises one or more on-site cloud connected devices located within an untrusted customer site, a multi-tenant cloud-based management service configured to manage the one or more on-site cloud connected devices, and a user interface to facilitate access to the one or more on-site cloud connected devices located within the untrusted customer site by a user associated with the untrusted customer site.