Mobile Apps and the Cloud

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Mobile apps will be more dependent on cloud computing in the near future. According to a new report by Gartner, by 2016, about 40 percent of mobile application development projects will take on the cloud to function. This is a big consideration for midsize firm IT pros, who are responsible for the security of mobile applications.

The Back-End Services

Gartner’s findings, recently featured in Telecomasia, showed that companies will be using cloud mobile back-end services, which use platform as a service (PaaS) technology. Today, successful mobile applications must work well with a set of back-end services that include user management, data storage, and social business functions. However, many mobile application developers may only really understand front-end development on the client side. Through cloud mobile hosted platforms both front and back end development is linked, creating the best type of integration and scalability possible. In fact, some cloud mobile back-end services enable developers to deploy server-side code…

More Mobile

The latest trends show that the cloud is an integral part of developing the best in mobile applications today. Mobile back-end services make the most of the cloud, enabling better data storage, for example. As more midsize companies consider the importance of mobile applications, understanding mobile back-end services will become increasingly important…

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