Earlier this week in Chicago, I gave a 2hr presentation at a Morningstar Tech Talk. The subject: All About Multitenancy. From concepts, to architecture, the presentation is chock-full of my thoughts and experiences with system and database multitenancy.

Creating Scalable Multi-Tenant Architectures for the Cloud from Morningstar Tech Talks on Vimeo.

Here’s a subject timeline to help you find what you are looking for …

0:0-0:31: All Clouds are Not Equal

• IaaS & PaaS, defined and compared
• multitenancy defined and why it’s important
• how multitenant architectures fuel rapid app advancement and innovation
• Q & A

0:31-1:27: Experiences Building Database Multitenancy

• competing challenges you’ll face
• the multitenancy spectrum: architecture options for tenant data isolation
• some relational and non-relational table design options
• system-level architecture challenges
• Q &A

1:27-End: The Multitenant Architecture of Database.com

• overview
• Database.com’s multitenant data model
• Database.com’s multitenant processing architecture
• proof of the power of multitenancy
• Q & A

[Cross posted at Database.com Blog]