Tech Explainer: What is Multi-Tenant Storage?

Multi-tenant storage (multitenancy) helps organizations develop applications faster and more efficiently by enabling multiple users to share the resources of a centralized storage architecture and customize their storage environments. When it comes to data storage, leveraging a multi-tenant approach helps lower each user’s overhead costs by distributing maintenance fees across all users. Public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud all serve multiple tenants from a shared infrastructure. Popular SaaS providers including Dropbox also employ multitenancy to offer millions of customers a unique experience based on a common user interface. AI-related workloads will become increasingly common in multi-tenant environments, too. That includes the use of large language models (LLMs) to enable Generative AI. In addition, all users in a multitenancy environment can contribute data for AI training, which requires enormous quantities of data. Whether your customers opt for single tenant, multi-tenant or a combination of the two, they must deploy hardware that can withstand rigorous workloads. Supermicro’s ASG-1115S–NE3X12R storage server is just such a storage solution. This system offers eight front hot-swap E3.S 1T PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe drive bays; four front fixed E3.S 2T PCIe 5.0 x8 CXL Type 3 drive bays; and two M.2 NVMe slots.