Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

In a guest post here in January, Matt McAdams critiqued Salesforce.com's database-as-a-service offering, Database.com, which I had previously lauded. McAdams, who is CEO of PaaS vendor TrackVia, ...

Component Load Balancing, a feature of Application Center 2000 that works in the middle tier, can help your Web and other applications scale out in a new way. Microsoft Application Center 2000’s ...

Organizations continually implement new business processes, discard flawed ones, or extend and modify current practices to better reflect the workings of the organization. The goal: to extend the ...

Developers working with three tiered software architectures — divided into presentation, business logic and data tiers — cannot efficiently handle temporary application data that must be sharable ...

I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

Numerous hybrid cloud studies tell us that companies aren’t choosing just one IaaS vendor. Instead, they’re choosing multiple, but they tend to think of the building blocks of choosing more than one ...