For SaaS purists, multi-tenancy — the architectural model that allows them to serve multiple customers from a single shared instance of the application — is an article of faith, the one thing that ...

Now that cloud infrastructure is an inexpensive commodity, the case for multi-tenant applications has gone away, argues Unit4's chief architect Claus Jepsen Software multi-tenancy refers to a software ...

Imagine managing a large apartment complex that is occupied by digital residents rather than real ones. They all share the same infrastructure, from the plumbing (the network) to the elevator (the ...

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Multitenancy has become a shibboleth in the software industry. You can tell what a company does just by asking for its opinion on a subject. To the companies raised on it (Salesforce.com , Google ), ...

It's a mark of how much progress SaaS has made towards mainstream acceptance that vendors entering the space now proudly wear multi-tenancy as a badge of honor, rather than espousing the argument that ...

A cleverly chosen multi-tenant architecture creates the necessary structures. The tenants share an application with other tenants, all of which are isolated from each other so that the application ...

Whether an IT organization is going with public or private clouds, it’s important to understand the nuances of multi-tenant architecture. For public clouds, IT managers need to understand the degree ...