Alcatel Lucent’s Big API Bet
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

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Apigee Asks: Is Your API PCI Compliant?
Apigee (previous CloudAve coverage), the API management company formerly known as Sonoa Systems, yesterday launched PCI-Compliant API management solution in the cloud. As we move into an increasingly platform based world where APIs are the key, the next important issue we, as an industry, have to tackle is security. Already companies like Apigee, Mashery, etc […]

Survey Indicates Key API Trends
Mashery, the company that delivers API management solutions for enterprises, today announced the results of a survey which indicates some key trends in the API market. As IT moves more and more towards platform services, APIs are becoming key to the very success of a business. Exposing APIs may be a child’s play for many […]