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Drool, Britannia? Is the UK Failing the Cloud?
By Roger Strukhoff
Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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Cloud Computing & Force.com: Multitenancy vs Single Tenancy
Is a machine-centric Cloud Computing environment more suitable for delivering single-tenant instances?

By: Markus Klems
Dec. 5, 2008 11:25 PM

Marcus Klems' Blog

Is a machine-centric Cloud Computing environment more suitable for delivering single-tenant instances?

Steve Bobrowski wrote an interesting whitepaper about the Force.com Multitenant Architecture. He describes multitenancy as a design approach to improve the manageability of SaaS applications and metadata-driven architecture as the choice to implement multitenancy. Steve writes that IaaS as a machine-centric Cloud Computing environment is more suitable for delivering single-tenant instances (compared to a “true” multitenant PaaS solution). This is an interesting insight.

Benefits of multitenancy:

  • economies of scale for the provider through small, experienced IT Ops, a single code base and a single platform
  • cost efficiency is partly passed to consumers who pay lower prices.
  • I do not agree with Steve that the quality of SaaS is necessarily higher because network-based applications still have major deficits compared to local applications, especially Desktop apps.
  • no information silos; instead, improved collaboration and integration

Benefits of metadata-driven architectures:

Metadata-driven architectures are a good choice to implement multitenancy since they provide a polymorphic, dynamic application environment. This allows users of the platform to build custom extensions.



How to build a metadata-driven architecture?

The main idea is to separate a compiled runtime environment (”kernel”) from several (meta-)data layers (data, common metadata and tenant-specific metadata). When a user creates a custom extension, the extension is saved in a metadata directory and created on runtime (thus improving scalability). A potential bottleneck are metadata I/O operations which is why caching of the “virtual applications” + directory search optimzation is a good idea. Force.com provides developers with a WSDL document that lets them generate an API for accessing the Force.com Web services. More information on Force.com-specific development can be found in the very read-worthy whitepaper.

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About Markus Klems
Markus Klems is a research assistant at Germany-based FZI Research Center for Information Technology. His main areas of interests are cloud computing, grids, distributed programming and agile Web development - the technological point of view as well as business models. He blogs at http://markusklems.wordpress.com/.

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