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

Belle Wong is a freelance writer specializing in small business, personal finance, banking, and tech/SAAS. She spends her spare moments testing out the latest productivity apps and plotting her latest ...

Simply running an application on a remote server doesn’t make it cloud-native. It’s about specific design principles for scalability and resilience. Cloud-native applications are increasingly the ...

Eric Marchewitz is a field solution architect with a 23-year career in cybersecurity solutions, working for companies such as PGP Security, McAfee, Cisco and Check Point. He is also a CISSP and cloud ...

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 ...

Two major characteristics of cloud applications affect their workload changes. Firstly, workload variability indicates the workloads of cloud applications exhibit significant volatility and pattern ...