CiRBA Releases API for Optimal Virtual Machine Placement

Amy Castor, June 13th, 2013

CiRBA has just released an API that communicates with your cloud management platform telling it the most efficient spot for that next virtual machine (VM). The API could make for a good marriage between platforms. While cloud management solutions are ideal for provisioning VMs, they don’t always have controls in place for managing capacity.


WSO2 API Manager Adds Multi-Tenancy to Latest Release

Amy Castor, June 10th, 2013

One way you can reduce the cost of deploying APIs is by deploying multiple API portals using the same platform. Multi-tenancy, a feature offered in WSO2 API Management version 1.4, allows you to do just that.


SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Heralds Arrival of Parallelization Era

Michael Vizard, May 8th, 2013

With the formal launch this week of the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud a new era of in-memory computing is about to become a lot more accessible. According to Professor Hasso Plattner, chairman of the SAP supervisory board, HANA in the cloud will give IT organizations access to a platform that essentially eliminates the need for batch processing in favor of a model where all applications are run in real time.


Cisco Looks to Make Some Developer Friends

Michael Vizard, April 25th, 2013

Events in the networking world don’t usually garner all that much attention from developers. But Cisco is hoping that developers are paying attention to both OpenStack, an emerging standard for managing IT infrastructure in cloud computing platforms, and Project Open Daylight, an open source implementation of a software-defined networking controller that Cisco supports.


Google Compute Engine Expands Availability

Romin Irani, April 5th, 2013

Google Compute EngineIn a world that is currently dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google has taken the next steps to announce itself as a solid alternative to AWS. The Google Compute Engine (GCE), an Infrastructure-as-a-Service product that allows running Virtual Linux Servers at Google scale was announced in June of last year and was available by invite only. The gates have been thrown open a little bit with Google announcing its expanded availability, price cuts and newer features.


Is the CMO now the Chief API Officer?

Guest Author, March 11th, 2013

Gartner analyst Laura McLellan made a bold statement in her 2012 webinar: “By 2017, the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO”. While I think it is too bold a statement, you can’t deny the fact that an eco-system shift is happening and API Management is the catalyst.  From my own personal experience, I can vouch for this shift in who is doing the big spending. A new set of tools are enabling CMOs to create new, powerful channels. They are called APIs. The very introduction of these APIs are resulting in new ways of leveraging channels and exposing content, media, and data to customers, partners, the community, developers, and even to the public.


Endatio Automates Business Processes via API

Eric Carter, March 7th, 2013

EndatioEndatio, business workflow automation software provider, has released a number of its services via the Endatio API. Of its broad offering; automation services, credit checks, sanctions checks, collections, credit financing, address lookup, and bank account verification can be integrated seamlessly into third party workflows via Endatio APIs. Customers have long trusted Endatio as a consultant. The series of APIs brings Endatio skill and talent directly into day to day processes.


Governance vs Innovation: Do They Have to be Enemies?

Guest Author, February 27th, 2013

I was lucky enough to attend the API Strategy and Practice Conference this week in NYC and was struck by the wide diversity of attendees. Sure, I expected to see the young guns heading up the industry’s hot new companies, but US Postal Service? Walgreens? AT&T? Target? An even bigger surprise was how relevant and interesting all of the discussions were. But it was obvious there is still the same old gap between the enterprise and the start-up that we have come to expect. For as long as I’ve been in the industry, the difference has always been around governance and process vs rapid innovation.


Single Page Web Applications, Javascript and the Proliferation of APIs

Guest Author, December 13th, 2012

In a post over at PandoDaily last week there was some discussion about the trend towards Single Page Web Applications (SPAs) that seems to be emerging especially for SAAS Web Applications (see Zendesk’s great post on Techcrunch last week). Single Page Web Apps are just starting to gain currency, but may end up playing a major role in API adoption since they essentially eliminate the need for “page based” navigation within an application. Instead, SPAs rely on a combination of an API and Javascript to create the user experience. It also seems likely that this trend might eventually extend even to content Web sites, not just functional applications (some thoughts on this here: The Death of the Web Page.


The APS Standard: Interesting for APIs?

Guest Author, December 12th, 2012

I recently came across something I didn’t know much about: the “Application Packaging Standard, or APS. It seems you can’t find a lot of independent information about this topic yet. If you google the term, you won’t get more than press releases, along with some other official documentation. No active user community seems to be surrounding this “open standard.” As it could be an opportunity for my own cloud emailing company, I’ve decided to dig a little bit into what APS has to offer to APIs in general.


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