Dealing with co-tenants can be an excruciating experience – whether you are talking about roommates, people in the office, your apartment building or even the communal table at Starbucks. And those are the co-tenants you can see and hear. In the cloud, co-tenants are often invisible but often affect your occupancy even more.

That is why one of the industry buzzwords around cloud computing is tenancy – as in multi-tenant and single-tenant. In the world of cloud computing, tenancy refers to how the cloud platform and underlying infrastructure are shared among different customers that use the same cloud service.

Multi-tenants and single-tenants

A multi-tenant cloud is where all customers share the same cloud platform and infrastructure and their data is commingled. This commingling does not mean that customers can see each other’s data. Access to the multi-tenant environment is strictly controlled and customers only get a view of their commingled…