Although Steve Ballmer claims that within 10 years all software will be delivered as a service, current application service providers struggle to make their businesses work. Heavy maintenance and ...

But while on one hand there's nothing new about hosted applications, on the other hand everything is new as enterprises of all sizes begin migrating more and more mission-critical technology to the ...

I’ve been hosting applications on local hardware for years and have come across numerous tools during this time. Media streaming platforms, photo managers, game servers, ebook organizers, and a host ...

As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? The integration of ...

With appropriately drafted SLAs (service-level agreements), health-care company The Schumacher Group has used hosted applications successfully for over two years. Unlike many of his peers who remain ...

Over the last couple of months, I’ve experimented with multiple self-hosted services to create a reliable application stack. But now that I’ve got dozens of gaming, coding, automation, and ...

DigitalOcean is an excellent choice for developers and businesses seeking a reliable, scalable, and affordable cloud-based hosting solution with a wide range of features. While it may not be suitable ...

A RASH OF financial and business-model problems among ASPs (application service providers) during the past year has cast doubt over the viability of the hosted application model. But IBM does not see ...