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What if Salesforce.com weren’t multi-tenant?


In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to write one last follow up post on the blogosphere-wide multi-tenancy discussion, so here it is! Recently, Salesforce.com quantified some of its architecture, giving us visibility into what it takes to support a SaaS business of its magnitude: 1,000 servers for 55,000 customers and 1.5 million […]

What’s More Cost Effective, Piecing a SaaS Stack Together or Using a PaaS?


At the OpSource Summit last week, Treb Ryan gave a great presentation that started with a simple (oft taken for granted) question: what is ‘the cloud’? Although this part of the talk was interesting, one particular part of the talk caught my attention. A third or so of the way through, Treb focused on the […]