APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap
Almost overnight, it seems, our lives came to revolve around social networks: We scan our Facebook feeds for updates from our families and relevant news, use Twitter to follow friends and celebrities, and pin the latest fashions or home-improvement ideas via Pinterest. Behind it all is the desire to drive engagement, to stay connected with […]
Open Letter to the OpenStack Community: OpenStack’s Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now.
Dear Stackers, For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack against incumbents, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware (VMW). The practical expression of this view is that OpenStack should build and maintain its own set of differentiated APIs. I’ve made no secret of my belief that this choice […]
The Rise of the Cloud Stack
Something changed this week in the enterprise software world. In an industry known for ruthless competition, a number of players – Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and NetSuite – introduced partnerships that portend a very different future. In very un-Larry Ellison-like fashion, something akin to harmony was proposed, “when customers choose cloud applications, they expect rapid low-cost […]
Getting Github : JavaScript Libraries Spilled EVERYWHERE! Series #003
This how-to is going to kind of go all over the place. My goal is to get github data. The question however is, how and with what. I knew there were some available libraries, so writing straight and pulling straight off of the API myself seemed like it would be unnecessary work. The github API […]
Is Infochimps running from the Data Market business?
Infochimps is one of the early champions of the data market business, and one that I’ve followed for several years. As I mentioned in my last post on the topic, the company has recently begun to pivot towards delivery of their (compelling) Enterprise Cloud big data analysis offering, with the company’s data market origins slipping further […]
ETLs and APIs – A Thought Stream on the Matter, Are Things Really Changing That Much?
Often the tendency has been, and largely still is in Enterprises, to build things really large. Doing big design up front (BDUF) all the way to creating massive JavaScript libraries for generating JavaScript from non-JavaScript langauges, leading to a huge case of analysis paralysis and other such keywords that all point to the mythic man month or […]
Cloud Architecture And Best Of Breed
As cloud computing becomes all the more pervasive, people are rethinking the idea of buying software and hardware suites in favor of best of breed approach. In a way, cloud architecture makes it easy to avoid the integrated stack lock-in as interoperability through open APIs is taken for granted in most cases. At Boxworks 2012, […]
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
Mashery’s Tool Aims To Make APIs The Dominant Enterprise Interface
The way organizations communicate is changing fast. With cloud adoption increasing across businesses of all sizes and shapes, this shift is accelerating even in the enterprise segment. I am talking about APIs becoming the dominant interface for programatic communications between applications. It used to be the domain of some modern web companies, mostly focussed on […]
Of little clouds and big clouds, local clouds and global clouds
Image: NASA Amazon’s globe-encircling cloud infrastructure is compelling to many. From Virginia to California, from Ireland to Singapore, and from Japan to Brazil; wherever you find yourself there’s a local instance of the same familiar set of services. And, in all likelihood, Australia will soon be added to the list. For those primarily interested in just serving […]
Analysis: CloudStack Goes To Apache Foundation And Embraces AWS APIs
Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that they are releasing CloudStack (previous CloudAve coverage) under Apache 2 License and it will now be part of the Apache Foundation. The project is supported by 30 ecosystem partners including NTT, Juniper Networks, Tata Communications, etc.. They also announced that they are embracing AWS API for interoperability. Already, […]
Why API’s suck, and what they lack
The Social Media Movement is slowly moving towards monetisation. Social Business, yes even Social Enterprise, is neigh. Infographics bite the dust in an ever-increasing frenzy to prove that social is here to stay, to rule, to conquer the world! And as yet another evidence of that, API’s are brought forward – by the hundreds, no […]
Do We Need A Standardization Around Amazon APIs?
Today there was a debate among the #clouderati about whether OpenStack should standardize their APIs around AWS APIs. Even though two years back I had an opinion that standardizing around AWS API will be good because of interoperability advantages, I have since changed my position and I now feel that it is too early to […]
Why I Think Office 365 Is Not (Yet) Ready
Earlier this week I had a Tweetbate with few folks who have a soft corner for Microsoft products on whether Office 365 (previous CloudAve coverage), Microsoft’s cloud based productivity suite, is a credible player in the modern cloud business applications space. When I say modern cloud business applications, I expect them to have, at least, […]
Commerce In The Networked World: Mashery leads The Way
Mashery (previous CloudAve coverage), the enterprise-grade API provider, today announced the availability of Distributed Commerce, an API platform that takes the commerce to the doorsteps of modern day networked users. In this era of smartphones, tablets and social networks, users expect vendors to bring commerce to where they are than going to an e-commerce website. […]
