In my last post, I focused on the extent to which today’s cloud app development centers on mobility, IoT (the Internet of Things), and the backend integration of it all.
While you were reading, you may have noticed that I didn’t mention cloud app security. That’s because I believe cloud app security —particularly the security of web, mobility, and IoT apps — deserves its own discussion.
In many ways, application development in 2015 has left the building. I mean that figuratively of course, because these days, much of app dev is focused on cloud-based applications — and much of cloud application development has shifted offsite.
As I noted in my last post, increases in both computing devices and IP traffic volumes put new demands on enterprise networks — and alters what’s required to manage those networks effectively. This juggernaut of hyperconnectivity is already underway:
By 2018 , the average person will have five network-connected devices and networks will host four times more data traffic than they do now
By 2019 , global per capita Internet traffic will stand at 37 gigabytes, up from 15.5 GB per capita last year
Many new technologies hold promise for your business —mobile devices, cloud computing, virtualization, big data, the Internet of Things — but they also pose challenges to your enterprise network’s performance and your ability to conduct effective network performance monitoring.
Often this is because many enterprise networks are based on outmoded models that result in performance bottlenecks as network traffic increases.
Cloud computing is now pretty much everywhere — including in smaller enterprises, some 37% of which have already adopted cloud computing . This year U.S. small and midsized businesses are expected to boost what they spend on cloud computing by 28% .
Still, in 2015 cloud computing remains a work in progress, and at Quest we get lots of questions from customers about how to cloud.
In a recent survey , 43% of IT decision makers rated mobility — which is to say, mobile-friendly apps or sites — as the top business functionality or process that’s critical for applications. These days, the line between the web and mobility has blurred to the point of invisibility.
Trouble is, successfully achieving secure mobile application development and web application development is hard for a significant majority of organizations .
