Methods, systems and computer program products for providing data from network secure communications in a cluster computing environment

• Main Authors: HERR DAVID ANTHONY, GODWIN JAMES RUSSELL, OVERBY LINWOOD H
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.07.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Methods, systems and computer program products provide secure communications over a network in a distributed workload environment having target hosts which are accessed through a distribution processor by a common network address. Secure communications are provided by routing both inbound and outbound communications with target hosts which are associated with a secure network communication through the distribution processor. Both inbound and outbound secure network communications are processed at the distribution processor so as to provide network security processing of communications from the target host and network security processing of communications to the target host.