Workspace Cache Database for Secure Resource Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Information Handling Systems (IHS) face challenges in securely managing and accessing resources across isolated workspaces, leading to inefficiencies in data sharing and resource utilization due to strict isolation protocols.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a cache database and orchestration system that allows secure communication and resource sharing between workspaces, using a cache database management interface and network tunneling service to cache commonly accessed files and maintain user context continuity across different environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If strict isolation protocols are implemented between workspaces, then security is improved, but resource sharing efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cache database as an intermediary layer between isolated workspaces. This mediator enables secure resource sharing by allowing workspaces to access cached data without direct communication, thus maintaining isolation while improving resource sharing efficiency. The cache database acts as a controlled interface that resolves the contradiction between security isolation and collaborative access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments resource access into two distinct layers: isolated workspace environments for security and a shared cache database for efficient resource access. This segmentation allows each workspace to maintain its security boundaries while enabling controlled sharing of commonly accessed files and data through the segmented cache layer, resolving the contradiction between isolation and sharing.
2Reliability
If workspaces access commonly accessed files from cloud sources each time, then data freshness is improved, but network traffic increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by caching commonly accessed files locally in the cache database before they are needed by workspaces. This advance preparation reduces the need for repeated cloud access, thereby reducing network traffic while maintaining data availability. The cache is pre-populated with frequently accessed resources to minimize future network requests.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates local copies of commonly accessed cloud files in the cache database. These copies serve as substitutes for repeated cloud access, reducing network traffic significantly. The copying mechanism maintains data freshness by periodically updating the cache from cloud sources while minimizing the frequency of cloud interactions.
3Reliability
If workspaces are isolated from each other, then security is improved, but user context continuity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The cache database serves as a mediator that preserves user context across isolated workspaces. By caching user-specific data and configuration information, the system enables context continuity when users switch between workspaces, while maintaining the security isolation of each workspace environment. The intermediary cache layer bridges the gap between isolation and continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
The cache database provides universal access to commonly needed resources and user context information across multiple isolated workspaces. This multi-functional cache serves both security isolation purposes and user experience continuity purposes, allowing the same cached resources to support multiple workspaces simultaneously while maintaining their individual security boundaries.
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AI summary
Embodiments of systems and methods for managing an Information Handling System (IHS) using a workspace orchestration system are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include computer-executable instructions to, upon a request to instantiate a workspace on the IHS, receive a user identity of a user of the workspace. Using the user identity of the user, the instructions may further cause the IHS to obtain, from a database, one or more policies associated with the user, and instantiate the workspace using the obtained policies. The policies identify one or more applications to be implemented in the workspace, application settings to be applied to each of the applications, or workspace settings to be applied to the workspace.