With cloud usage on the rise, various cloud application programming interfaces (APIs) are emerging to connect end-users to databases via mobile or desk-based web interfaces. There is no standard way ...

A cloud storage API is an application programming interface that connects a locally based application to a cloud-based storage system so that a user can send data to it and access and work with data ...

Eugene Xiong is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF products and services. The way software is developed and functions has changed dramatically in ...

Web application programming interfaces (APIs) are the glue that holds together cloud applications and infrastructure, but these endpoints are increasingly under attack, with half of companies ...

WhatsApp will today begin beta testing a new, cloud-based version of its WhatsApp Business API, hosted on parent company Facebook’s infrastructure. With the shift to the cloud, the setup time for ...

It could be argued that the contemporary world of the web is built on application programming interfaces (APIs) – or, more specifically, web APIs that allow a web application to access services and ...

If APIs enable cloud computing, what happens when it comes to portability? Will anyone voluntarily let me off of their cloud? We need standards to support functions such as portability. An application ...

Cloud computing has been the signature tech transition of the past decade. Virtualization, however, was the silent force ...

There are a handful of best practices businesses should adopt to avoid accidental or malicious data exposure via APIs. Here are three. In an ideal world, APIs are intended to streamline cloud ...

An application programming interface (API) is code that enables two software programs to communicate. An API facilitates the exchange of data, features and functionalities between software ...