Multi-tenant cloud computing: From cruise liners to container ships

Abstract

As a multi-tenant service, cloud computing may be compared to container ships and cruise lines, which also provide services to large numbers of independent customers. To be cost-effective, cloud computing needs to be more like container shipping, with standardized containers, optimized costs, and automated assurances of non-interference from other cargo. Trusted infrastructures offer key technology elements that deliver these assurances. © 2008 IEEE.