PaaS spending, though it represents only a small piece of the overall cloud environment, is growing at an astonishing pace. In a recent study, MarketsAndMarkets predicted the global PaaS market will grow to $6.94 billion in 2018, up from just $1.28 billion five years earlier-a compound annual growth rate of 32.54%. Many companies have moved […]
Research recently carried out by Dimensional Research has unveiled an interesting trend about technologists: majority of enterprises are looking into the deployment to multiple clouds in both the short and long-term. Dimensional Research also reports that 77% of IT decision makers are planning to implement multi-cloud architecture, while a staggering 91% intend to at least […]
Enterprises around the world are embracing the cloud to rapidly deliver innovation to better engage with their customers and differentiate from the competition. Cloud-based application platforms, often referred to as Platform as a Service (PaaS), uniquely enable companies to accelerate their digital transformation by improving developer and IT productivity and agility. While today much of […]
The outsourcing environment is extremely dynamic and so are the changes for cloud application management due to new offerings such as virtualization or cloud computing. These developments, while essentially helping companies achieve greater flexibility in their application development roadmap and services rollout to their customers, they also call for companies to rethink their application management […]
Cloud application development has been picking up a lot of momentum across industries. For it to effectively be hosted and managed, cloud application performance fine tuning is an important aspect to be considered. Application performance tuning in the in-house data center era was frequently likened to as an art. Business applications in the current era […]
Although the concept of cloud computing has been around for decades, there is a new found frenzy among companies to go the ‘cloud route’ for as many of their enterprise business applications as possible. In its original form, cloud computing represents shared usage of computing resources; a concept that has been around from the age […]
Enterprise application development has undergone a radical transformation, thanks to cloud based application development approaches. According to IDC, cloud computing is the ‘third platform’, with each platform referencing a visible technology shift. The ‘first platform’ comprised of mainframes and terminals, the ‘second platform’ being the client-server model supported by PCs. The definition of the third […]
Thanks to a growing group of PaaS (Platform as a Service) providers, cloud computing is becoming more prominent as a mechanism for developers to seamlessly deploy applications. Whereas IaaS providers offer bare compute cycles, SaaS providers offer access to such apps as CRM online, PaaS offerings provide turnkey services for developers to get their apps […]
Cloud application development has revolutionized enterprise computing. The importance of a cloud app development approach has been established beyond doubt. The previous years saw noticeable highs in this realm, but also some serious lows in cloud security, due to the damaging security breaches in Target, HomeDepot, and Sony Pictures. As the curtains are drawn on […]
Cloud computing has revolutionized application development processes. Just the commercial payback from cloud app development is so compelling that organizations cannot ignore this approach anymore. Cloud platforms from Google, Amazon Web Services, SalesForce, and others have evolved over the last few years, and we can understand their power by reviewing a set of key development […]