Multitenancy

The word “timeshare” likely evokes thoughts of vacation properties where people buy time slots for using a holiday home or condo. You might picture a slick salesman convincing you to invest in a vacation home on a beach somewhere. However, the use of the term “timeshare” in the world of cloud computing has a different meaning altogether. Instead of beach houses and vacation times, timeshare in the IT world refers to multitenancy—a fundamental concept in cloud computing. In cloud computing, multitenancy allows multiple clients, or tenants, to share the same…