Web application programming interfaces (APIs) are the glue that holds together cloud applications and infrastructure, but these endpoints are increasingly under attack, with half of companies ...

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Leaders must manage trade-offs carefully. Poorly managed APIs can lead to over-automation, which increases errors at scale.

Nirvana in the cloud world, as in the ability to easily move from cloud service to cloud service without vendor lock-in, might be on its way for application developers. Tackling portability issues in ...

Just the other day, SOA Software announced it was beefing up its "Atmosphere" product family to support both intra- and inter-enterprise applications. SOA Software is one of many vendors recognizing ...

Nowadays, it is increasingly easier to lose one’s self in dashboards, visualisation tools, nice graphics, and all sorts of button-like approaches to cloud computing. Since the last decade, UX work has ...

With Cloud Computing being the biggest thing on the technology horizon, there is a huge race shaping up over which API will allow clouds to talk to each other. Like many other sectors in tech, the ...

When it comes to cloud computing, APIs more or less drive everything, but in the eyes of some researchers, existing security controls haven’t kept pace. When it comes to cloud computing, APIs more or ...

If APIs enable cloud computing, what happens when it comes to portability? Will anyone voluntarily let me off of their cloud? We need standards to support functions such as portability. Dave Rosenberg ...

Zend, Microsoft, and IBM lead the open source cloud portability effort, which seeks to eliminate vendor lock-in by helping developers create apps that can access all major cloud platforms Nirvana in ...