Jobber: Automating Inter-Tenant Trust in The Cloud
Andy Sayler, Eric R. Keller, Dirk C. Grunwald · 2013
The rise of cloud computing has significantly shifted the way we host our digital infrastructure. Today, com-panies often host their sites and services in large multi-tenant data centers. Understandably, recent research has explored mechanisms to isolate tenants. In this poster, we explore the opposite end of the spectrum – enabling ten-ants to securely collaborate. Multi-tenant data centers can offer many advantages over traditional private data centers such as the ability to dynamically grow and shrink the size of a deployment in response to the load on the service. An untapped bene-fit, however, is that the collocation of multiple services in these data centers also offers numerous possibilities for inter-tenant optimization and cooperation. For example, service providers and service consumers that happen to