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 ...

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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. In an age when even your grandparents know what an ‘app’ is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look at the cloud computing services out there — then consider the fact they all have their own definition of an API. Clearly, we need standard cloud computing APIs. Enterprises are concerned because ...

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 ...