US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Fencing off cluster services by using identity and access management to control access to shared storage resources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,829, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Fencing off cluster services by using identity and access management to control access to shared storage resources" was invented by Lan Chin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.) and Niharika Avasarala (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system prompts a key manager to provide access keys, to access resources stored by a shared storage, for a group of services hosted by nodes of a cluster. The group of services receive the access keys from the key manager. The first service in the group of services uses the first access key ...