And third is cloud, private, public or a hybrid, which provides advantages in building and deploying applications quickly.

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That explains why 71 percent of enterprises are discussing deploying custom mobile applications and 33 percent are implementing or have already implemented them, according to a recent Symantec survey.

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Goldsmith says he can't divulge details on the specific vulnerabilities Matasano found in applications deploying FIX, as well as other financial industry-specific protocols, but the bottom line is that these protocols weren't built with security in mind.

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With this acquisition, Oracle acquired important middleware tools like the Weblogic Server (a tool for deploying Java based enterprise applications) and Tuxedo (a tool used to deploy mainframe-based applications).

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All of these are pertinent issues in wider cloud adoption and are integral to deploying the 90 percent of applications not currently available in the public cloud.

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According to a 2011 cloud adoption survey, 37 percent of businesses globally are deploying cloud solutions to either remotely host applications or host data (or both).

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As organizations prepare for this transition, we encourage them to look at the opportunities afforded by the supply chain and by deploying software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in the cloud.

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The import behind that statement is that customers can get on with the business of running a shoe business or a CPG company or a bank and begin withdrawing from the costly, maddening, and ultimately low-value world of evaluating, testing, purchasing, integrating, deploying, monitoring, patching, and babysitting vast swaths of infrastructure and applications and networks and storage.

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