Brendan Burns, distinguished engineer at Microsoft, unveils his proposal for software libraries that could make it easier to deploy cloud apps at KubeCon 2017. (GeekWire Photo / Tom Krazit ...

Constant, the creator and parent company of Vultr, is on a mission to make high-performance cloud computing easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for businesses and developers worldwide.

Cloud-native applications are increasingly the default way to deploy in both public clouds and private clouds. But what exactly is a cloud-native application and how do you build one?

Google Cloud Build is a set of software designed to help create always on cloud apps in the continuous world of cloud.

When we talk about the various cloud deployment models—public, private, community, and hybrid—it’s the hybrid model that elicits the most head scratching.

This addition to TIBCO’s analytics portfolio helps users to build their models and scale cloud-based analytic model management, deployment, monitoring and governance.

This cloud continuum is another way to describe what Vellante refers to as supercloud. The concept is a technical reality from a developer standpoint, according to MongoDB’s Massingham.

If you're nervous about running your business applications on a public cloud, many experts recommend that you take a spin around a private cloud first.

With the right multicloud strategy, you can embrace DevOps practices and cloud-native architectures without sacrificing governance and control.