⊿ Point. {R} Glossary. ◢ Keyword: M. ▰ Sources. 〓 Books [B] ◥ University. {q} PhD. ⏫ THEMES. ⏫ Big Data. [B] Big Data. ⚫ USA. ↂ EndNote. ☝️ BD Dummies. Multitenancy. A single instance of a software that serves multiple tenants Some commentators regard multitenancy as an important feature of cloud computing.[2][3] Adoption[edit] History of multitenant applications[edit] Multitenant applications have evolved from—and combine some characteristics of—three types of services: Differentiation from virtualization[edit] In a multitenancy environment, multiple customers share the same application, running on the same operating system, on the same hardware, with the same data-storage mechanism.
Competitive differentiation[edit] Some companies actively promote the principle of multitenancy and use it as a source of competitive differentiation. Economics of multitenancy[edit] Cost savings[edit] Data aggregation/data mining[edit] One of the most compelling reasons for vendors/ISVs to utilize multitenancy is for the inherent data aggregation benefits. Complexity[edit] Release management[edit] Multitenancy simplifies the release management process. Requirements[edit]