Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a monitor module configured to control and simultaneously operate a plurality of software resources executed on the operating system on one hardware resource, one of the software resources is a server software resource operated as a server, a one of the software resources is a client software resource utilizing service of the server software resource, the hardware resource has a user disk space in which data used by the client software resource is stored, and the server software resource has an access right control module which attempts to communicate with a management server connected via a network when the client software resource is started, acquires an key from the management server, authenticates the acquired key, and provides a right of access to the user disk space for the client software resource when it is determined that the key is valid.