## Introduction Beginning with RAS 17.1, Parallels introduces a new multi-tenant architecture, with the addition of Parallels RAS Tenant Broker, enabling organizations to share components from the same RAS infrastructure among different Tenants while keeping client data segregated and reducing costs. The RAS multi-tenant architecture offers the following advantages to Service Providers and organizations: Cost savings due to reduction of number of RAS Secure Client Gateways and High Availability Load Balancers (HALBs) while maximizing resource usage and consolidation. Faster onboarding of new tenants/customers. Simplified centralized management of multi-tenant environments. Extended market reach through reduction of operational costs for organizations of any size by allowing cost scaling through shared infrastructure.