Multi-Tenancy

Multi-tenancy is a key salesforce.com innovation that’s at the heart of Force.com. Multi-tenant applications are designed so that users share the same physical instance and version of the application. Individual “deployments” of those applications occupy virtual partitions rather than separate physical stacks of hardware and software. In contrast, traditional client/server (single tenant) architectures require an entire stack of hardware and software to be dedicated to each application deployment. Each stack component must be purchased and maintained, including networking, hardware, operating system, database, and application components. Each stack in such architectures also requires its own intricate maintenance, management and ...

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