There is a truth about SaaS (software as a service) solutions that twist the definition of cloud-based technology. Is the solution offered by the vendor a lift and shift of their traditional software ...

Whether an IT organization is going with public or private clouds, it’s important to understand the nuances of multi-tenant architecture. For public clouds, IT managers need to understand the degree ...

Software is called "multi-tenanted" if a single instance can serve multiple tenants, and multi-tenancy is often referred to as an application "architecture." Cloud-native technology is challenging ...

Alarm bells rang when several respected ediscovery providers announced they had shut down their sites due to security breaches. The causes were different for each, but the results were the same.

Acumatica (a circa 2007 application software firm founded by a number of ex-Solomon executives) recently announced version 4.1 of its cloud ERP solution. One of the pleasant surprises I and others ...

Multi-tenancy and multi-instance emerged as a discussion topic at a recent ServiceNow event. Brian Sommer unpicks the arguments. In a multi-tenant cloud application, essentially all of the customers ...

Dennis Howlett has summarized the story so far in a debate I was having these past few days with Josh Greenbaum, Bob Warfield and assorted other Enterprise Irregulars (and it's not the first time I've ...