A comparison of secure multi-tenancy architectures for filesystem storage clouds

  • Authors:
  • Anil Kurmus;Moitrayee Gupta;Roman Pletka;Christian Cachin;Robert Haas

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research - Zurich;UCSD;IBM Research - Zurich;IBM Research - Zurich;IBM Research - Zurich

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th International Middleware Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A filesystem-level storage cloud offers network-filesystem access to multiple customers at low cost over the Internet. In this paper, we investigate two alternative architectures for achieving multi-tenancy securely and efficiently in such storage cloud services. They isolate customers in virtual machines at the hypervisor level and through mandatory access-control checks in one shared operating-system kernel, respectively. We compare and discuss the practical security guarantees of these architectures. We have implemented both approaches and compare them using performance measurements we obtained.