Cloud--To be Single or be Multi tenant

The general confusion about the cloud seems to be the single and multi-tenant concept. In fact, if you look at the SaaS, that aspect can make or break your solutions. In simple terms, think you have a house and you are renting it out to just one person-- so it's a single tenant house. And now think of a scenario-- you have a large house and you are renting the rooms to various tenant---that's a multi tenant house. Same is the case with SaaS solutions, if only one person can use it at a time---it's single tenant; and if more people can use it at the same time, it is multi tenant.

The question that people often ask me is whether single or multi tenant is more beneficial. If you look at cloud, multi tenant wins hands down. More so, in the SMB sector where cost plays a major role.