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Caspio CEO Frank Zamani and I were discussing what we considered to be the biggest trends around PaaS and online databases that would affect the market in the coming year. So, we decided to write ours out as blog posts – this is installment one (Frank’s will appear on the blog soon as well). Enjoy [...]
As we look forward to an amazing 2013 here at Caspio, I wanted to take a look back and re-visit some of the more popular posts and topics that were popular over the past year. The following posts saw constant traffic even months after their initial posting on the blog.
I initially started looking at [...]
I just read an interesting study released by Symantec focused on employee attitudes towards cloud apps and services vs. IT attitudes towards these topics. The results were not surprising. Essentially, employees want to harness the power of modern cloud apps and services – and care little about the overarching risks to the company in [...]
I just read an interesting article on Wired.com that pits CIOs against “Rogue Developers” (what I prefer to call Citizen Developers) and posits that answer lies in private cloud environments. The article does make a good point: in larger enterprises a balance must be struck. CIOs need to keep developers happy, and feeling empowered. [...]
Over the past several weeks, a lot of research and news has come out to suggest that 2013 will be a breakthrough year for platform-as-a-service and cloud apps in all their permutations. A recent Current Analysis report signals a major shift towards PaaS starting in 2013. The shift will be signaled by the fact [...]
In today’s enterprise the responsibilities of the IT department are difficult and complex. SaaS and PaaS solutions offer an alternative for IT departments looking to lower complexity and costs. And, SaaS and PaaS tools are being championed by business users, since they typically require far less technical skill to deploy and customize. However, there are [...]
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Need Structured Data in Your CMS? Embed Caspio’s Cloud Database
The vast majority of websites run on some sort of content management system (CMS). CMS tools manage the production and publishing of unstructured data such as content pages, documents and media on websites. There are literally hundreds of CMS tools that cover the entire gamut; from free to enterprise-grade, from in-house to cloud-based. There are [...]