Why Your Cloud Applications Should Be Multi-tenant – The Connected Web

SuccessFactors recently gave a speech, by CEO Lars Dalgaard, talking about their architecture and their approach. They have something like over a thousand customers per physical server when you net it all out and aggregate it. And that’s the marginal utility, that’s the scale that you need to get to, because you need that op-ex in your business as a SaaS ISV to be in the five percent type of range. And it’s not going to happen if you’re doing a per-customer expenditure.”  Continue reading the transcript or listen to the podcast here.