Helix Nebula cloud security hinges on federated identity management
September 3, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Rob Wright.
When you’re building a multi-national cloud computing platform that involves some of the leading scientific research organizations in Europe, more than a dozen commercial partners and numerous data centers across the global, federated identity management becomes a crucial pillar.
That’s one of the key lessons learned from the Helix Nebula project, also known as the "Science Cloud." The ambitious cloud computing project was first announced in March 2012 by the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), the European Space Agency, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory…
The three scientific groups teamed up with several technology companies including Atos SE, CapGemini SA, T-Systems International GmbH and SAP AG, as well as industry consortiums such as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and the European Grid Infrastructure. Within just a few months, the partnership had Helix Nebula up and running and successfully moved part of a major research project for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the cloud…
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