Patent ID: 8601308

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a persistent common view of data, services, and infrastructure functions accessible via a plurality of shared storage systems of a virtual shared storage system, wherein the services accessible via the plurality of shared storage systems are stateless services; applying different governance policies at two or more shared storage systems of the virtual shared storage system; and transferring content from a particular shared storage system of the virtual shared storage system to a requesting device without using at least one of a server session, an application-to-server session, and an application session, wherein the content corresponds to at least one of data, a service, and an infrastructure function provided via the particular shared storage system, wherein, when the content transferred to the requesting device corresponds to a particular service provided via the particular shared storage system, the requesting device instantiates an instance of the particular service at the requesting device, wherein information associated with use of the particular service, a state of the particular service, and a security level of the particular service are not retained at the requesting device after the instance of the particular service is terminated, and wherein use of the particular service at the requesting device does not modify the particular service stored at the particular shared storage system.