In a guest post here in January, Matt McAdams critiqued Salesforce.com's database-as-a-service offering, Database.com, which I had previously lauded. McAdams, who is CEO of PaaS vendor TrackVia, ...

For decades, web architecture has followed a familiar and frankly exhausting pattern. A dominant approach emerges, gains near ...

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Explaining the ongoing evolution from client-server to cloud-native, source of much confusion and misdirection when comparing SaaS offerings There are many definitions of software as a service (SaaS).

With the release of vSphere 5.1, VMware has made a significant change for the everyday virtualization administrator by replacing the traditional desktop client (aka C# Client, VI Client) with a new ...

In the era before web apps, the web was a relatively simple system of hyperlinked documents written in HTML. Click a link on a page and your browser would load a new page based on the referenced URL ...

The vSphere Web Client has gone through some changes that may seem confusing, so here's a quick rundown of where to find the good stuff. With the release of vSphere 5.1, VMware has made a significant ...