Multiple-tenancy policy server

A multiple-tenancy server is a server that supports the hosting of multiple customers on a single server instead of on multiple client systems.

For example, your company might be sharing applications or data on your company server with your customer (for example, Smith-Davis Enterprises). Before adding data and information that belongs to another customer (for example, Systems, Inc.), you must ensure that these two customers cannot get access to the data or applications that belong to the other company.

Using a multiple-tenancy (multi-domain) server, you can run the applications or data for each company in an isolated server environment. Running in an isolated or partitioned server environment replaces the need to use multiple physical servers for each customer and their applications. Depending on the demands of your customers and their applications, you can host multiple clients on a single server. Replacing multiple servers with one server reduces the costs to your company for the services you provide to your customers. For example, fewer servers reduce hardware costs and reduce IT personnel burden. It is easier to manage a single server than it is to manage multiple servers.

A multiple-tenancy server is not necessarily less secure than the traditional one-server, one-client approach. Using technologies such as SSL and restricted access, you can protect two customers (users) on the same server from one another. Extra layers of security for multiple-user applications are designed into Verify Identity Access. Verify Identity Access compartmentalizes each domain to seal off users from one another rather than using the multiple-user security provisions that are provided by the operating system.

Multiple-tenancy is supported by Verify Identity Access through the use of different Verify Identity Access domains. These domains can be managed through the Verify Identity Access administration interface. For more information about managing domains, see Domain management.