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Cloud Credential Vault

Authors:
Huan Liu

Keywords: cloud management, credential vault

Abstract:
While cloud computing presents strong value propositions, it also presents significant headaches to enterprise IT departments, including incompatible billing and purchasing process, no policy enforcement and control, and difficult data sharing across users. We describe Cloud Credential Vault -- a central repository of cloud access credentials, which is designed to solve these problems facing enterprise IT departments. We describe the Cloud Credential Vault's architecture, design, and how it solves each of the described problems. We also describe its current implementation, where we have already integrated with Accenture's billing system. Our early experience with the Cloud Credential Vault indicats that it can meet the challenges facing the enterprise IT department when managing access to cloud resources.

Pages: 150 to 154

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: November 21, 2010

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-61208-106-9

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 21, 2010 to November 26, 2010