Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode
The battle royal that is being played out between the different Cloud “operating systems” reached new heights at Structure last week. While all of us are talking about this stuff however, vendors and customers alike are simply trying to get going with these tools. They’re not focused on idealogical battles, but rather on finding easy [...]
More SaaS Integration from MuleSoft
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the past few months talking with businesses trying to wrangle the integration of different applications. Despite lots of APIs, the cloud, mobile devices, the democratization of IT and many other current themes, application integration is still hard, painful and requires a far higher level of technical nous [...]
3scale Revamps Products, Goes Free and Jumps on a Bandwagon
A raft of product announcements coming through today from API enablement vendor 3scale. Some cosmetic, some pricing related and some all about improving adoption. All together they make a complete end-to-end API platform that can scale alongside growing organization. So what’s new in the release? 3scale Free Plan 3scale have
The Big Opportunities in the Cloud
Recently I was invited to take part in a series of private briefings where large financial institutions sat down with one or two industry analysts to “pick their brains” about what they’re seeing as broad trend in the sector. In an attempt to democratize what could otherwise be information kept within a walled garden, I [...]
Cloud is Simple. Well, It’s Real Complex but that Complexity Can, and Should, be Hidden from Users.
An interesting discussion occurred on the CloudU LinkedIn group recently. It was started by an awesome post from James Urquhart admonishing people to accept the fact that Cloud is complex and to simply deal with it. The inimitable Sam Johnston posted an interesting response, the essence of which was that, while Cloud is undoubtedly complex, [...]
Finding Relevance in a Commoditized World, APIs and Infrastructure
A few weeks ago I moderated a session at Defrag. As part of the session Sam Ramji from Apigee presented. The session got a little sideways due in part to some frayed nerves from a hectic travel schedule for a bunch of people and in part to a misunderstanding around a line of questioning. That [...]
SnapLogic Releases its take on Master Data Management
Last week I moderated a panel at CloudBeat looking at application integration and whether standalone applications could successfully be integrated to meet the common data requirements of the enterprise. There were a few different perspectives on the panel but one thing everyone was in agreement about was that the meaning of the word “suite” has [...]
3Scale Takes APIs to the Edge
There are a number of different players in the API enablement space but most of them agree on the fact that for content heavy APIs at least, there is a need to situate points of delivery as close as possible to the consumers of that content. I covered one vendors moved in this direction recently. [...]
Geoloqi, CivicApps, and TriMet API/SDKs
I’m heading off on yet another coding adventure this coming weekend. I can never get enough hackathons, startup weekends, and such. The energy, creativity, and learning is unbeatable at these types of events. This adventure will be mashing up a plethora of APIs (SDKs) and other capabilities to build something cool against. What it may [...]
Are you being served ?
As I write this latest post, I’m somewhere over the US, cruising at 35,000 feet and hastily making vapor trails toward attendance at my first Gluecon event in Broomfield, Colorado. And you know what, I’m pretty excited too. Not only has Gluecon got a great lineup for 2011 and a promise of being an excellent [...]
The Lego Internet
Jessie Stay over at Staynalive brings up the idea of the Lego internet, where large companies are busy making widgets, API’s and other building blocks that designers and developers can leverage in their own applications. Jessie mentions that the Building Block internet might just be a way to visualize Web 3.0 which is not a [...]
