International Business Machines Corporation
REDUCING ATTACK SURFACE BY SELECTIVELY COLLOCATING APPLICATIONS ON HOST COMPUTERS

Abstract:

Reducing attack surface by selectively collocating applications on host computers is provided. System resources utilized by each application running in a plurality of host computers of a data processing environment are measured. Which applications running in the plurality of host computers that utilize similar system resources are determined. Those applications utilizing similar system resources are collocated on respective host computers.