Patent ID: 7840902
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of automatic creation of secure connections between segmented resource farms in a utility computing environment, the method comprising: automatically creating farms using visual representations of the farms designed by respective administrators as a specification, wherein each of the farms comprises information technology resources; creating a shared subnet as a basis of a secure connection; associating the visual representations of the farms with the shared subnet to form the secure connection between the farms; and associating one or more access lists with the visual representations of the farms, wherein the respective administrators that designed the visual representations of the farms authorize that the secure connection can be established between the farms while not authorizing other farms, which are designed by other administrators, to connect through the secure connection by specifying the one or more access lists, wherein the automatically creating of the farms using the visual representations of the farms as the specification further comprises using visual representations of farms that were created by a development tool to enable the farms to be automatically created, and wherein the creating of the shared subnet as the basis of the secure connection further comprises using visual representations of ends of the secure connection that were created by the development tool to enable the creation of the secure connection.