Patent ID: 7269849
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing secure access of a partner to the development environment of another partner comprising the steps of: starting a VPN tunnel between workstations to establish a secure encrypted tunnel end to end wherein each partner is identified with a different VPN group/password; starting a session by the partner in a Web page on a portal machine that authenticates through LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) the user identification and password of a user; routing the session to an engagement box of a plurality of engagement boxes depending on the user where the engagement box includes a server with an operating system and each of said engagement boxes are on network segments separated by firewall boxes with another logon/password and is validated thru second LDAP and wherein all users of the same partner are all launching on the same engagement box; accessing data and applications from that engagement box on Network File system storage authenticated second LDAP to get benefit of a big compute server farm composed of many high-end servers in a secure way; submitting batch or interactive jobs to said server farm on a common resource segment so data input and data output on the server farm remains on the common resource segment; and a display is sent back to appropriate partner's engagement box and then a remote display at the partner location.