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 ...

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

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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 ...

WhatsApp is continuing its push into the business market with today’s news it’s launching the WhatsApp Cloud API to all businesses worldwide. Introduced into beta testing last November, the new ...

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 ...

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 ...