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).

One of the buzzwords to emerge over the past year is that of "serverless" computing or architecture, which, as the term suggests, involves the provisioning of key information technology resources to ...

Kevin Macwan is a Software Development Manager for Amazon, with 9+ years of experience in building distributed cloud platform services. Serverless architecture is no longer the future of computing—it ...

Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services over the internet, which can include online storage, media streaming, and more.

The outage that hit the world's leading cloud provider Amazon Web Services on Monday has highlighted global reliance on the ...

What is an app? Most people think of them as the little, self-contained bits of software on our phones. They have shiny icons, and we get them through app stores. Sometimes they are useful. Often they ...

Desktop virtualization-separating a PC desktop environment from a physical machine using a client-server set-up-will ramp up U.S. Defense Department computing efficiencies and cut costs significantly.

What is a serverless architecture, what are the pros and cons, and when should you opt for serverless applications over traditional ones? With application availability and performance demands ever ...

Red Hat is in the midst of changing its image from a top Linux company to the future king of cloud computing. CEO Jim Whitehurst told me in 2011 that the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud would be ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

Processing performed in one computer or in a cluster of coupled computers in a single location. Access to the computer is via "dumb terminals," which send only input and receive output or "smart ...