Readings in Cloud Research: Multi-Tenant SOA Middleware for Cloud Computing

Multi-tenancy is a development principle in software architecture where a single instance of the software runs on a server, serving multiple client organizations (tenants). This has been in practice since days of mainframe computing. However the advent of cloud computing and consequent need to optimize the resources by the cloud-providers has opened new research challenges in multi-tenancy domain. In " Multi-Tenant SOA Middleware for Cloud Computing" the the researchers Afkham et.al present an architecture for achieving multi-tenancy at the SOA level, which enables users to run their services and other SOA artifacts in a multi-tenant SOA framework as well as provides an environment to build multi-tenant applications.