Multitenant Applications
To decrease the cost of delivering the same application to many different sets of users, an increasing number of applications are multitenant rather than single-tenant. Whereas a traditional single-tenant application requires a dedicated set of resources to fulfill the needs of just one organization, a multitenant application can satisfy the needs of multiple tenants (companies or departments within a company, etc.) using the hardware resources and staff needed to manage just a single software instance (Figure 1).
Figure 1. A multitenant application cost-efficiently shares a single stack of resources to satisfy the needs of multiple organizations.
Tenants using a multitenant service operate in virtual isolation from ...
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