
Virtualization not only brings new threats to your infrastructure but also brings new ways to protect it.

Virtualization not only brings new threats to your infrastructure but also brings new ways to protect it.

Nowadays society can’t go more than five minutes without using their mobile devices to check email, Facebook, or their favorite application. As a result, increasing numbers of employees are bringing their own smartphones and tablets to work, and for internal IT, this provides many challenges.

If you have several on-premises applications that need to be integrated, an on-premises integration platform might suit your needs; but if your focus (today and in future) is on cloud applications, a logical conclusion is to do your integration in the cloud too.

When forward-thinking business leaders view the cloud as opportunities, hackers also shift their attention to the cloud service provider websites. The reason is obvious. They can potentially gain access to data of multiple companies if they break into major cloud vendor sites, because of the multi-tenant nature of such websites.

When talking to product managers and architects, the importance of multitenancy is still a frequently debated question: “Do I have to be multitenant in my first release?” In this blog post, I would like to help demystify this concept, and also share with you my perspectives on why multitenancy is an important up-front business consideration because it has many downstream technical and financial implications.