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Cloud-Native Software: What it Is, How We Got Here, and Why it Matters

Information Week

To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.

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Modernizing Core Applications With Cloud (the video)

Forrester IT

Core software systems manage financial, customer, inventory etc. Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders want to modernize these core apps using cloud technologies and practices. Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders want to modernize these core apps using cloud technologies and practices.

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IBM wants drag-and-drop connectivity for hybrid cloud applications

Network World

The IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is a SaaS service that implements a virtualized Layer 3-7 environment to rapidly enable secure connectivity between users, applications, and data distributed across multiple locations and environments, according to Andrew Coward, general manager of IBM’s software defined networking group.

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Prepare For AI That Learns To Code Your Enterprise Applications (Part 1)

Forrester IT

Software Development, Past And Present Shortfalls As digital accelerates, so does the demand for business applications. And the complexity of building business applications is growing, despite all the innovations we’ve created during the past 20 years.

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Cisco SD-WAN software gains broader application access, enhanced analytics

Network World

Cisco has tweaked its flagship SD-WAN software package to increase customer application flexibility and improve visibility into the performance of distributed resources. which adds support for new business and customized cloud applications, analytics and security features. The company announced Cisco SD-WAN release 17.8,

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Push-Down Query Capabilities: Five Questions To Ask Your Cloud BI Provider

Forrester IT

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers many benefits, including but not limited to elasticity: the ability to shrink and grow storage and compute resources on demand. Clients of most leading enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms enjoy this cloud elasticity benefit but at a cost.

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Palo Alto software advances end-to-end enterprise cloud security

Network World

Palo Alto Networks has bolstered its security software to better protect enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The company rolled out a new version of its core cloud-security package, Prisma Cloud 3.0, which includes the ability to code security directly into SaaS applications.