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Missing the Point on Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud APIs

Missing the Point on Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud APIs

By Randy Bias on July 1, 2013

At the recent Structure event in San Francisco, I watched Werner Vogels’ presentation, along with about 500 others in a packed auditorium. Werner is the CTO of Amazon Web Services and one of the industry’s more prophetic voices. (I was honored to share the keynote stage with him at Cloud Connect a couple of years ago.) During Werner’s conversation with […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, APIs, Application programming interface, aws, cloud computing, google, google compute engine, hybrid cloud, openstack, private cloud, werner vogels

Enterprise Grade Cloud Enabled by the Ecosystem

Enterprise Grade Cloud Enabled by the Ecosystem

By Ofir Nachmani on May 30, 2013

While investing in building new data centers all over the world and creating the management overlay in order to be able to sell their hardware, IaaS operators are also relying on their ecosystem to support the evolving enterprises that go to the cloud (e.g. the “Enterprise Grade Cloud”). API First – The move to the […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, APIs, Application programming interface, aws, cloud computing, ecosystem, Network Attached Storage, Newvem

Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

By Ben Kepes on February 28, 2013

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of the princely $10M funding round the company had just raised. As I said at the time: […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, big data, CloudComputing, Continuuity, devops, facebook, platform services, Todd Papaioannou

Drivers for Cloud Adoption–CIO Research

Drivers for Cloud Adoption–CIO Research

By Ben Kepes on December 18, 2012

Interesting survey results just released that indicate cost isn’t the highest factor in cloud adoption (yay – at last people are talking more about non-cost impacts of cloud) – Respondents believe compliance requirements, value and competitive advantage are the key drivers for cloud adoption. The survey polled 330 global CIOs

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Application programming interface, Business-to-business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, e-commerce, software as a service, technical support | 5 Responses

MuleSoft Launches API Repository and Community Resource

MuleSoft Launches API Repository and Community Resource

By Ben Kepes on December 11, 2012

MuleSoft, the integration platform for both SaaS and on-premise applications, is today announcing the launch of APIhub, a public repository and community resource for API discovery. The idea of the hub is to give both application developers, and enterprise customers the ability to find and use a wide selection of

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged alcatel-lucent, Application programming interface, google, John Musser, MuleSoft, ProgrammableWeb, software as a service

HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

By Ben Kepes on December 5, 2012

At HP’s Discover event here in Frankfurt today, the company will be announcing a private PaaS offering, built on top of Stackato, the PaaS which is itself a fork of the open source Cloud Foundry initiative. HP has entered into an agreement with ActiveState, the company behind Stackato, to OEM its platform and integrate it […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged ActiveState, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Frankfurt, HPDiscover, PHP, platform services, stackato, vmware | 3 Responses

Follow Up Post – Continuuity, the PaaS for Big Data (and a $10M Series A)

Follow Up Post – Continuuity, the PaaS for Big Data (and a $10M Series A)

By Ben Kepes on November 14, 2012

When Continuuity came out of stealth recently I was a little dismissive of a press release that was full of buzzwords and lacking significant details about what they’re actually doing. To their credit the Continuuity team reached out to me and spent some time talking about what they’re seeing in the marketplace and why they […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Andreessen Horowitz, Application programming interface, Battery Ventures, big data, Cloudfoundry, Continuuity, engineyard, platform services

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

By Ben Kepes on November 9, 2012

My background and entry into the technology industry came from my experience wrangling tech for a number of different small and mid-sized businesses. I’ve seen first hand just how much work is involved in tailoring discrete solutions into something that actually meets the specific needs of the business. This is even more difficult for resource […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Application programming interface, CloudComputing, Extract transform load, IBM, quickbooks, salesforce.com, SnapLogic, software as a service, venturebeat | 1 Response

Continuuity Launches Big Data Application Fabric–Warning: Buzzwords Abound

Continuuity Launches Big Data Application Fabric–Warning: Buzzwords Abound

By Ben Kepes on October 23, 2012

Coming out of stealth today at Strata and Hadoop World is Continuuity, a company that is looking to position itself within the PaaS landscape as it gives organizations the ability to build, deploy and scale big data apps. All of which sounds dangerously like buzzword heaven so it’s worth taking a look at what Continuuity […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, big data, CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, Continuuity, platform services, programming, software as a service

CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice

CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice

By Ben Kepes on September 28, 2012

CloudSigma is taking an interesting approach to IaaS but one which I suspect will have limited real world appeal going forwards.

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Application programming interface, Bechtel, Central processing unit, Chief technology officer, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSigma, Random-access memory | 2 Responses

Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That

Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That

By Ben Kepes on September 24, 2012

Over the past handful of years I’ve commented on a seemingly disconnected bunch of areas:  the rise of cloud computing, the forced re-design of how enterprises work, the focus on more project-specific teams, dispersed workers … the list goes on. In the last 12 months of so I’ve seen these formerly disconnected areas converge together […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apigee, Application programming interface, Bechtel, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, enterprise 2.0, Steven Willmott

Levion and the Promise of Hybrid Accounting Software

Levion and the Promise of Hybrid Accounting Software

By Ben Kepes on September 14, 2012

As the accounting software industry moves to a general acceptance of the fact that customers demand the sort of benefits that cloud application bring, there are two distinct approaches vnedors are making; Pure-play cloud vendors (FreeAgent, Xero etc) build pure Saas applications and do away with any need for desktop

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Application programming interface, intuit, intuit partner platform, quickbooks, software as a service, user interface, windows | 2 Responses

Alcatel-Lucent Open Sources its API Management Engine

Alcatel-Lucent Open Sources its API Management Engine

By Ben Kepes on September 7, 2012

I remember when OpenStack was announced – the creation of an open source solution in a formerly entirely proprietary area was something of a bomb shell. Regardless of your thoughts around open stack as a product (or, more correctly a series of product), it’s hard to be critical of an initiative that at its core […]

Posted in Open Source | Tagged alcatel-lucent, API Management, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Creative Commons, github, openstack

Alcatel Lucent’s Big API Bet

Alcatel Lucent’s Big API Bet

By Ben Kepes on August 17, 2012

Last week Alcatel Lucent made an announcement which, at first blush, seems kind of boring. They’ve released a  methodology for creating APIs, they’ve made the methodology available through Creative Commons as a front end for a new consulting practice that helps enterprises work through the processes involved in moving to

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged alcatel-lucent, ALU, Apigee, Application programming interface, Arithmetic logic unit, Creative Commons, Mashery

OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

By Ben Kepes on August 7, 2012

The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product is powered by OpenStack, and combines that with SSD-powered nodes to deliver a compact rack mount […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, hewlett packard, Krishnan Subramanian, morphlabs, openstack, oscon, rackspace, techcrunch | 1 Response

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