While deploying an application in the cloud offers substantial benefits, it also poses significant challenges. This white paper offers an overview of the issues involved in software as a service (SaaS) deployments. It covers the challenge of transforming your software, improving functionality and reducing costs, maintaining performance of your multi-tenant
One of the problems that led to the financial crisis was that financial companies paid agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s to rate their products—a clear conflict of interest. Surprisingly, something similar happens in the world of cloud computing. In a new report, Gartner’s Jay Heiser points out that
You’ve heard the buzz: Agile development is all about solving the problems associated with traditional software development. The Agile Manifesto states, “We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.” But just what is better about Agile development? As a software development manager, I’ve
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Until now, Java developers have found it difficult to move their apps to the cloud. “The whole idea is you have these 6 million Java developers, and they want an enterprise-class cloud to deploy their applications on,” said Salesforce.com’s Eric Stahl. Today, Salesforce.com and VMware have announced a new cloud