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Cloud Platform Spending Signals Major Shift in IT

November 26, 2012

Analysis firm Gartner predicts that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) spending will hit about $1.5 billion in the next year, according to a recent ZDNet article. The spending could hit as high as $2.9bn by 2016, according to recent Gartner research. While these num...

Caspio Plugin for Microsoft Office 2010 64-bit Now Available

November 20, 2012

Caspio has released an update to its plugin for Microsoft Office, now supporting Microsoft Office 2010 64-bit. This update came as a result from requests by Caspio customers inside our Ideabox community. (If you are a Caspio user and haven't joined the Ideabo...

The Power of Simple, Predictable Scalability with Caspio

November 19, 2012

Over the weekend we had a spike in activity from one of our customer apps. This app was generating ten times the usual traffic, and we were curious as to what was causing the spike in form submissions on their site. Turns out, the account in question was WGRZ,...

Mobile Platform Wars Further Prove the Case for Web Apps

November 16, 2012

More and more evidence is revealing that Apple is losing market share - fast. The company that pretty much invented the modern mobile app experience is losing ground, according to recent analyst results published in a recent Business Insider article. Apple is ...

Cloud Data Strategies – Think Big, Start Small, and Never Stop Improving

November 14, 2012

In an InfoWorld blog post today, David Linthicum outlined three steps to make towards a successful cloud database strategy. I think the advice is solid, and hints at the main gist of what I have been saying in recent blog posts around the transformative nature...

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Google’s Cloud SQL: Validation Without Innovation

November 13, 2012

Google announced this week an enhanced version of its Cloud SQL database service. The offering is pretty straightforward; it is a MySQL database available to users in the cloud. The enhancements are around scale and performance, which are of course good things...

Cloud Apps: The Intersection of Strategic and Tactical

November 12, 2012

After reading an interesting piece at business Insider on how Toyota is building for its future by leveraging cloud applications and services, I had a few thoughts. One, is that every company these days has to be at least thinking about how IT and technology i...

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The Case for Web Versus Native Mobile Apps

November 9, 2012

I came across an interesting post from Chris Heilmann over on the Mozilla blog that destroys some myths about HTML5. Most of the anti-HTML5 talk I have heard has come from those debating whether it is a viable platform for building mobile applications, given t...

Election Results Made Easy with Caspio

November 8, 2012

Regardless of your political affiliation, everyone can agree that this week's elections signified an impressive increase in awareness and involvement on the part of U.S. citizens. Voter turnout for the past several elections remains high - even with natural di...

Don’t Migrate Apps To the Cloud – Build Apps in the Cloud

November 7, 2012

In a ZDNet post this week by James Staten of Forrester Research, he cites points from a report by himself and analyst Jeffrey Hammond titled "Don't Migrate Your Apps to the Cloud." In essence, the article notes how the cloud requires a new attitude towards app...

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