Patent ID: 8578076

Claim:
A method for establishing a cloud bridge between a first virtual storage resource and a second virtual storage resource for transmitting data from one of either the first virtual storage resource and the second virtual storage resource to the other of the first virtual storage resource and the second virtual storage resource, the method comprising: receiving, by a storage delivery management service executing on a computer within a first virtual storage resource provisioned on at least one storage system comprising one or more hardware devices, user credentials of a user; enumerating a list of storage adapters associated with the user responsive to receiving the user credentials; invoking, by the storage delivery management service responsive to receiving the user credentials, a storage adapter identified in the enumerated list of storage adapters associated with the user; executing, via an interface for the invoked storage adapter, an instruction to identify a second virtual storage resource provisioned on at least one storage system comprising one or more hardware devices, wherein the interface comprises an interface translation file mapping each of a plurality of proprietary management profile formats to a standardized management profile format; accessing, by the storage delivery management service via the storage adapter, the second virtual storage resource; and establishing, by the storage delivery management service, a cloud bridge between the first virtual storage resource and the second virtual storage resource using management profile information stored in a format proprietary to the second virtual storage resource, the information translated by the storage adapter using the interface translation file.