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Understanding Threats of Multitenancy and Comparative Performance Analysis of Virtualization Technologies

by Zinnia Sultana
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 144 - Number 6
Year of Publication: 2016
Authors: Zinnia Sultana
10.5120/ijca2016910316

Zinnia Sultana . Understanding Threats of Multitenancy and Comparative Performance Analysis of Virtualization Technologies. International Journal of Computer Applications. 144, 6 ( Jun 2016), 13-17. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016910316

@article{ 10.5120/ijca2016910316,
author = { Zinnia Sultana },
title = { Understanding Threats of Multitenancy and Comparative Performance Analysis of Virtualization Technologies },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Jun 2016 },
volume = { 144 },
number = { 6 },
month = { Jun },
year = { 2016 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 13-17 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume144/number6/25182-2016910316/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2016910316 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%D 2016
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

With the rapid growth of cloud computing, computing resources are provisioned as metered on demand services over networks and can be easily allocated and released with minimal management effort which increases the security risks. This paper aims to provide an understanding of the different threats created by multi-tenancy and virtualization in a public IaaS cloud. This paper further analyze the performance of Xen hypervisor using Apache benchmark which is chosen as it gives a good idea how the hypervisor is able to handle increasing I/O stress in terms of CPU and memory storage as the number of virtual machines increases, ultimately giving an figurative approach on solving threats created by multi-tenancy and virtualization in a public IaaS cloud.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Cloud Computing threats multi-tenancy hypervisors virtualization benchmark.