‘Cloud Native’: What It Means, Why It Matters

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

When HP announced July 28 that it was acquiring ActiveState’s PaaS business, senior vice president Bill Hilf said it was doing so in part to bridge the gap between traditional IT and "cloud-native applications." The term "cloud-native applications" is not only finding its way more frequently into announcements, it’s also gaining currency as a phrase that sums up where a lot of enterprise developers and operations staff think they are headed.

"Cloud native" is not merely a buzzword; it’s also enshrined in its own foundation — the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, launched July 21. For those unsure of what the term means, here’s a primer on why it’s the term du jour and why it’s often used to sum up a set of goals and priorities that used to be the province of a Google or Facebook…

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