“Cloud is the new hardware” is one of my favorite catchphrases of the moment. The idea that we can assume a fully automated, wildly scalable compute, storage, and network infrastructure is ...

Enterprises are quickly transitioning their cloud infrastructure from simple storage and backup to a functioning application development and delivery platform. But one of the thornier issues in this ...

AppHarbor, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, is rolling out a new interface with an add-on API intended to simplify app coding and deployment for .NET developers. Michael Friis, co-founder at ...

Cloud computing has revolutioned the way we source and consume IT services. From storage to application development cloud has become a way of life. There are many benefits of developing applications ...

My editor recently mentioned a conversation he had with consultants who noted that the architecture of Salesforce.com’s Force.com PaaS (platform as a service) embeds a lot of service-oriented ...

DotCloud, a start-up dedicated to Platform as a Service, is moving on from private beta mode to offering its services to developers and IT departments for deploying their applications worldwide. The ...

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) emerged as a leading force in the ever-evolving quest to streamline software development. PaaS dates back to 2006 with Force.com, followed by Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk ...

Cliff De Wit, Chief Innovation Officer at Microsoft SA. While the operating environment for modern businesses has been dramatically reshaped by a number of technology trends in the last few years, few ...

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Sluggish the Internet of Things (IoT) apps can cause work productivity to take a hit. One way to keep productivity high with IoT apps is by testing them with a Platform as a Service (PaaS). The ...

Even most non-techies probably have an idea of what cloud computing is by now, but when you start getting into IaaS vs. SaaS vs. PaaS even those of us in the industry can struggle. In a nutshell, ...