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 ...

There was a time, not long ago, when bookkeeping firms were apprehensive of cloud solutions. Those days are fading for modern bookkeepers.

Applications exist ‘on’ the cloud or on a server or smaller computer, it’s a fact of life. What that means in real terms is that software applications are developed from base code-level architectural ...

Eugene Xiong is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF products and services. The way software is developed and functions has changed dramatically in ...

Oracle Corp. calmed the fears of tens of millions of OpenOffice.org users when it declared it would keep supporting the free open-source productivity suite following its merger with Sun Microsystems ...

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 ...

After 32 years, Microsoft has begun to kill off the Microsoft Office brand, with plans to rebrand its Office.com and Office cloud-based apps to Microsoft 365 in the near future. Microsoft Office was ...

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), ...