CA Technologies acquires Layer 7, MuleSoft acquires Programmable Web, 3Scale gets funding It is clear that the API Economy is kicking into gear in a big way. Last week, Intel announced its acquisition of Mashery, this week, CA Technologies announced its acquisition of Layer7 , MuleSoft announced its acquisition of ProgrammableWeb and 3Scale closed a [...]
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More Consolidation for the API Economy
April 24th, 2013 · No Comments · feature, Identity, The API Economy
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Intel Announces Mashery Acquisition
April 22nd, 2013 · No Comments · feature, Open API Economy
From partnership to acquisition Let there be no confusion. Intel is a hardware company. It makes microchips. This is its core business. History shows that companies do best when they stick to their roots. There are exceptions. At the same time, Intel has always dabbled in software at some level. Mostly in products that support [...]
Tags:#apieconomy
The Dark Side of Cloud Computing
April 19th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Coding, feature
When things go bad, it goes really bad At KuppingerCole we use Office365 extensively to manage our documents and keep track of document development and distribution. On April 9, 2013, Microsoft released a normal sized Tuesday update to Windows and Office products. The only thing is, this time the update completely broke the functionality of [...]
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Another Case for IDMaaS
April 17th, 2013 · No Comments · feature, Identity, life
Identity Management is a universal problem cross posted with KuppingerCole. When I pay my electric bill I usually just call the power company and give them my credit card. This month I decided that I should go set up auto payments on the web site and be done with it. So I opened the power [...]
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The Façade Proxy
March 18th, 2013 · No Comments · Coding, feature, The API Economy
Simultaneous post at KuppingerCole. Securing BYOD With the rapidly emerging cloud-mobile-social Troika coupled with the API Economy, there are so many questions about how to design systems that can allow application access to internal information and resources via APIs that will not compromise the integrity of enterprise assets. And on the other hand, how do [...]
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How to Make an API
February 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Apps, feature, The API Economy
Note: Cross post with my blog at KuppingerCole Introduction Making an API is hard. It is also a tough question. A small company out of England has figured out how to let anyone make an API with just: Dropbox A Spreadsheet A Datownia SaaS account Datownia One of the activities I practice to keep up [...]
The Case for Reputation Capital
October 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Daily Thesis, feature, Identity, Innovation, KRL, The API Economy
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NSTIC Update
September 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Daily Thesis, feature, Identity
National Institute of Standards and Technology awards $9M to support trusted identity initiative Blog post on KuppingerCole site for NSTIC announcement.
Salesforce Identity
September 21st, 2012 · No Comments · feature, Identity, Innovation, The API Economy
Identity Management as a Service (IdMaaS) gets a new 500lb guerilla Blog post on my KuppingerCole blog concerning the Salesforce Identity announcements.
SAML is Dead! Long Live SAML!
September 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Daily Thesis, feature, Identity, The API Economy
Answers to the unanswered questions from the webinar New blog post on my KuppingerCole blog. Q&A results from last weeks Webinar with Pamela Dingle–
Tags:#identity #SAML