Let’s face it, APIs are hot. They engender community by enabling third-party developers, they allow Enterprises to expose existing content and services in new ways, and they provide a way to deliver brand new products and services. If you haven’t … Read more
The unprecedented explosion of modern technologies combined with a burgeoning mobile space has forced enterprises to rethink previously held beliefs about the static enterprise perimeter. Remember the olden days when you said your enterprise was completely self-contained in one data … Read more
If you haven’t heard, APIs are the new website! What? According to programmableweb, API traffic is exploding. For example, did you know that twitter receives 13 billion API calls per month, Salesforce receives 12 billion per month and eBay comes … Read more
In a recent conversation with a large customer of ours, some interesting facts came to light. This blog is a recapitulation of the insights I got from that discussion. I’ll not only tell you how this customer is using our … Read more
If you’ve been around the SFO airport lately, you’ve probably seen advertisements for Splunk, which is a widely deployed monitoring tool for machine data that collects, indexes and harnesses log information generated by all your IT systems and infrastructure, whether … Read more
Hello Everyone – If you’ve been following Gartner and Forrester’s research on the evolution of cloud computing models, the concept of a cloud service brokerage is becoming increasingly popular. I am proud to announce that I’ll be participating in an … Read more
Here’s a question – do we really care about SOAP or REST any longer? With the advent of cloud and the increased focus on the rapidly changing software consumption model, it seems like Enterprises should come full circle back to … Read more
Hello Expressway Fans – I just wanted to let everyone know that Intel(R) Expressway Service Gateway has just received official DoD PKI certification! What does this certification mean? In short, its a battery of 76 certificate path processing tests covering … Read more
There has been some recent chatter about the lack of strong, proven standards for API authentication when using the REST paradigm.Recent discussions seem to suggestthat 2-Legged OAuth2 is the de-facto champion for securing so called lightweight webservices based on the … Read more
The PCI Council today released the long-awaited tokenization guidelines (Information Supplement: PCI Tokenization Guidelines) which give merchants specific guidance on using tokenization to reduce PCI scope and assessment costs, which have been costing large merchants upwards of $500,000 / year. … Read more
