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multitenancy

Having multiple occupants. It refers to software that is shared by several customers, each of which is unaware of the others. Multitenancy is often contrasted with virtualization; however, multitenancy applications can run in both virtualized and non-virtualized environments. The separation of customer data is built into the application. See also MDU.
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Multitenancy allows enterprises to drive business profits by leveraging data across many different applications and groups and accelerating time to market.
In multitenancy multiple tenants share resources on pay as you go basis.
In an exclusive interview with RBR+TVBR, a MOBITV representativeexplained the concept of "multitenancy" as an approach software providers use so that a single instance of software runs in the cloud, and that single instance serves multiple customers.
Multitenancy is essential for securely isolating tenants on shared networks within data centers, enterprise networks and service provider environments, while maintaining high throughput and ease of operations through zero-touch provisioning at the edges with full visibility throughout the network.
It is also ideal for channel partners looking to efficiently and profitably adopt and manage cloud offerings, with features such as multitenancy, multi-customer administration, tracking, and invoicing.
It thus has features to support multitenancy, enable multiple applications, and include several different network domains.
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