Head in the Clouds: SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud Strategy
Recent Posts
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'SAPple' -- Made from the best stuff on earth?
- News Writer 24 May 2016 -
Do APIs need a 'do unto others' golden rule?
- News Writer 09 May 2016 -
No-code, low-code tools are here to stay. Deal with it.
- News Writer 02 May 2016
SAP gets access to 10 million enthusiastic developers writing for iOS. That's a lot of developers with a lot of non-traditional ideas about apps can do. Apple gets access to SAP's global enterprise ...
Ride-hailing service Uber is in an über-snit about how a handful of Harvard Business School students are using its developer API in a price-comparison mobile app. Uber, whose own app rained ...
Like it or not, no-code and low-code (I dub thee NCLC) application-development tools that allow line-of-business departments to navigate around IT's army of highly trained, expert analysts and ...
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Do you love the cloud, but for the wrong reason?
- News Writer 22 Apr 2016 -
Developers need to be aware of avoidable costs
- News Writer 15 Apr 2016 -
Could the Internet of Things morph into the Abandonment of Things?
- News Writer 06 Apr 2016 -
Nothing is 100% secure, not even an iPhone
- News Writer 29 Mar 2016 -
When multi-SaaS integration is a repeat offender
- News Writer 24 Mar 2016 -
When no one knows why an app does what it does
- News Writer 15 Mar 2016 -
Are your cloud apps' APIs secure?
- News Writer 29 Feb 2016
I do not subscribe to the idea that cutting costs should be the primary reason for moving to the cloud. Cloud computing is a means to an end, not a business strategy unto itself. You embrace the ...
What do developers worry about when creating an application? Performance. Data validation. Correct logic and processing. Memory use. Concise code. What they tend not to concern themselves with is ...
What should happen when the maker of an IoT product shuts down its cloud service, rendering customer-purchased hardware useless?
The FBI dropped its suit against Apple after finding a way into the iPhone that belonged to a San Bernardino terrorist. It proves, yet again, that nothing is ever completely, totally secure.
Have you found yourself having to integrate a dozen instances of the very same SaaS product -- none of which IT knew about? You're not alone.
What happens when there's a problem an app or systems software that no one anticipated? Not you, not the app owner, not QA, not ops, not anyone.
You can never prove that an application is secure; you can prove only that it is not secure. How can that be?
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Parse shutdown: Alternatives are asking for your business
- News Writer 10 Feb 2016 -
Parse shutdown: What now?
- News Writer 03 Feb 2016 -
Walmart shakes up application lifecycle management
- News Writer 28 Jan 2016 -
Spark is overtaking MapReduce. Are you ready?
- News Writer 19 Jan 2016 -
Microsoft closes Windows 8
- News Writer 12 Jan 2016
Rarely have I seen anything touch a nerve to the degree of Facebook's coming shutdown of the Parse mobile back-end as a service. Developers are watching out for each other, offering up ideas for ...
Were you caught off guard by Facebook's to shutter its Parse MBaaS? You're not alone. What now?
Following more than two years of development and testing, WalmartLabs is making its OneOps cloud management and application lifecycle management platform available to the open-source community. ...
There is no doubt that Spark's swift growth is coming at the expense of the MapReduce component of the Apache Hadoop software framework. So what's the allure of Spark?
Today is the day that Microsoft discontinues all support for the loathed Windows 8 operating system, and stops issuing security patches for Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10. Windows 7 and ...