CLOUD RESOURCE VIRTUALIZATION TOWARDS SECURITY

Cloud computing is an advanced technology or engineering that increase IT technologies potentialities in terms of usage ,running, elastic resource(storage, computing power, servers, bandwidth etc) manag ement and collaborative execution approach. The most critical aspect of cloud computing is cloud resource virtualization which is equally important for cloud providers and their subscribers. The resources comes in various forms such as client, applications , storage, server, network etc.. This paper focus as on how virtualization helps to improve security by protecting the integrity of virtual machines and cloud components and elasticity of the resources, in cloud computing surroundings. This paper also prov ides an add - on on hardware support for virtualization and open source virtualization methods, challenges and future research direction .