Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Application-centricity is everywhere, at every level. There ...

Cloud providers shifted focus from infrastructure services to application-first services consumed directly by developers giving rise to a new application architecture. This architecture lets ...

A cloud application is internet-based software that processes or stores data online. There are three main kinds of cloud applications: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure ...

AppZero, formally Trigence, demonstrated a different approach to allowing organizations to take advantage of the computing resources made available by hosting suppliers at Demo 09. Rather than taking ...

We’ve known for years that application portability between public cloud providers is not easy or cheap. Here are a few approaches to try instead. Cloud portability once seemed like a groundbreaking ...

The term “cloud-native computing” encompasses the modern approach to building and running software applications that exploit the flexibility, scalability, and resilience of cloud computing. The phrase ...

Enabling your existing “pre-cloud” enterprise applications to take full advantage of cloud computing is fraught with technical obstacles, such as unsupported versions of operating systems (OS), ...