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Building an API Strategy? We Can Help!
My colleague Blake posted yesterday with a response to Daniel Jacobson’s thought-provoking post, “Why you probably don’t need an API strategy”. Blake spells out some pretty clear reasons why you do...
View ArticleConnecting Enterprise APIs to Mobile Development
I am very excited to be speaking alongside Andreas Constantinou from VisionMobile next week in a joint webinar entitled “Connect Enterprise APIs to Mobile Application Development.” We’ll be talking...
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The API Economy
The API Economy is launched and it’s not too late to join in the fun. According to Pew Research, 91% of American adults have a cell phone and 34% of American adults own a tablet computer. The...
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Tokenization for De-Identifying APIs
De-identifying Data in APIs I was catching up on my RSS feeds over the weekend, reading all the things I missed while I was at IDF, when I saw this great post from Kin Lane calling for “A Masking,...
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Long Live API Management
It’s death came furiously and quick, like an earthquake shaking the carefully constructed buzzword tower engineered by Enterprise software marketers around the world. Anne Thomas Manes proclaimed the...
View ArticleAPI Gateways, Security, and Innovation
Securosis has a new analyst report out called “API Gateways: Where Security Enables Innovation“. The paper describes how API gateways simultaneously enable security and software development. It shows...
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What about an Obamacare API?
APIs are big news this week for the federal government. First we have the former U.S. CTO calling on APIs as a means to accelerate data sharing across agencies, and second we have a preview from NPR of...
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Mobile Access: Citizen Developers Empowered by APIs and HTML5
It has been several years since Gartner first made their prediction that Citizen Developers will create at least 25% of business applications by 2014. We have quite a few of these at Intel, and I...
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Bulletproof API Management
Bulletproof your API Management With McAfee Focus underway this week I wanted to revisit security, risk and compliance in the context of providing Bulletproof API management. So what does it take?...
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APIs and Your Personal Cloud
Hey, that’s my personal cloud! You didn’t know you had a personal cloud did you? I was a bit shocked myself. Well, we might not all have a personal cloud yet, but Rackspace’s Robert Scoble gave an...
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Taming Big Data Location Transparency
Andy Thurai, Chief Architect & CTO, Intel App security & Big Data (@AndyThurai) | David Houlding, Privacy Strategist, Intel (@DavidHoulding) Original version of this article appeared on...
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API Management for the Internet of Things (IoT)
A fundamental premise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the recognition of a certain human weakness. Humans are poor data collectors. We are poor fact collectors. We are poor sensors. Our senses fail...
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Exposing the Beast: Customized API Management
Dr. Henry McCoy becomes the beast and he is smarter with API Management. Original artwork used by permission and credited to Mike Monroe @ http://blog.mike-monroe.com What do Dr. Henry McCoy and large...
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API Management; doing APIs now or doing them right?
Old school surfacing Intel has recently been gaining some chops in API Management. Expressway API Manager has been out a while now and we acquired Mashery and Aepona this year. Mashery you will (or...
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API Management as a Platform
Why should you think of API management as a platform? Because it’s becoming one of the most prodigious and important aspects of how Enterprises of all sizes participate in the digital economy.Keeping...
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How APIs Fuel Innovation
This article originally appeared on ProgrammableWeb. There has been so much talk about APIs and how they add additional revenue channels, create brand new partnerships, allow business partners to...
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API Management for Obamacare and Healthcare.gov
It’s not every day that you hear about a software project on public media, but NPR and other public outlets are covering the troubled rollout of the Healthcare.gov website nearly hourly. As a...
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API Management or Enablement? You Decide
Last week I was at the HTML5 developer conference and then spent the remainder of the week at the API Strategy Conference in San Francisco. All of the keynotes and presentations were great and I think...
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API Management Invasion: SOA At the Gates
One of the most surprising moments of my talk at QCon San Francisco last week was when I asked the audience who is ‘doing’ service oriented architecture inside their Enterprise. API Management Best...
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API Management Predictions for 2014
The New Year is fast approaching and it’s time for some wild, speculative predictions on API Management for 2014. As I mentioned in earlier posts, the space is has been rapidly maturing over the...
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API Management – Anyway you want it!
- By Andy Thurai (@AndyThurai) and Blake Dournaee (@Dournaee). This article originally appeared on Gigaom. Enterprises are building an API First strategy to keep up with their customer needs, and...
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The Grinch Who Stole Christmas for Target’s Brand and Customers
40 million card numbers stolen. Will your firm be the next target? News broke last week that a major retailer was the victim of a massive theft of customer credit card data, in what is becoming an all...
View ArticleATOS API: A zero cash payment processing environment without boundaries
When ATOS, a big corporate conglomerate (EUR 8.8 billion and 77,100 employees in 52 countries), decided that they wanted to become the dominant Digital Service Provider (DSP) for payments, they had a...
View ArticleSnapchat’s Unhappy New Year
Once More Into the Breach… Less than a month after the Target credit card breach another significant data theft is in the news. This week’s victim is Snapchat, the popular photo sharing social...
View ArticleHow to effectively build a hybrid SaaS API management strategy
- By Andy Thurai (@AndyThurai) and Blake Dournaee (@Dournaee). This article was originally published on Gigaom Summary: Enterprises seeking agility are turning to the cloud while those concerned about...
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Our Next Webinar: Five Practical Steps to Building an Enterprise Class API...
Join us Wednesday, May 22 at 10:00a Pacific / 1:00p Eastern for our next webinar with Capital One and Mashery: APIs are a hot topic in all sectors of IT – they have gone from being niche solutions...
View ArticleHadoop Security: Internal or External? Why not both!
I saw a conversation today on Twitter that asked why we don’t just embed proper security into Hadoop instead of suggesting the API gateway approach to Hadoop security that my colleague Blake proposed....
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Be Your Own Broker: An Enterprise Perspective using API Management
Kin Lane has started tracking what he calls API Brokers over at API Evangelist. This quote illustrates the promise of API brokerage: I envision other new API brokers emerging, in niche areas like...
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Big Data, IoT, API …….Newer technologies protected by older security.
Now-a-days every single CIO, CTO, or business executive that I speak to is captivated by these three new technologies: Big Data, API management and IoTs (Internet of Things). Every single...
View ArticleCloud Service Brokerage: Enabling MBaaS for the Enterprise
API Evangelist Kin Lane has just released a new paper that provides an overview of the Backend as a Service space. Kin’s research does a great job covering the breadth of tools and services that get...
View ArticleWhere do secure, private and compliant APIs come from?
It’s apps that always get the glory don’t they? After reflecting on my talk at the Health Refactored conference in Mountain View last week, I saw a lot of focus on the consumer and client side of the...
View ArticleEnterprise API Management for Mobile Part 2 – Don’t Trust. And Verify
In the previous post we looked at some of the policy zones that an Enterprise API Management has in Mobile security, including: 1. External security policy: for the Mobile device -> API Management...
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Olé for APIs…
For the first time in my life, I was in Spain (Madrid) last week. What a lovely country and people. Great food too! It amazes me how people can speak multiple languages and entertain the clueless...
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QCON NY 2013
I had a speaking opportunity at QCON in Big Apple last week. As usual Big Data and Mobility were the dominating topics in this conference. Surprisingly, there was a strong html5 presence as well. At...
View ArticleEnter the Stork: Where do APIs come from?
Make an app! Hack something! Innovate through APIs! Have you ever wondered where APIs come from? Sure they provide tremendous value, but how does an Enterprise or organization publish a scalable,...
View ArticleJoin Us Tomorrow: SC eSymposium on Audit & Compliance
Tokenization. It’s not just for PCI anymore. As enterprises migrate to the cloud for improved cost and efficiency, data is being put at risk. A recent scan of Amazon S3 buckets showed a treasure...
View ArticleEC2 Security: Bridging Enterprise Cloud Apps to the Mobile Mainland
The cloud holds enormous promise for improving agility, availability, and cost for app deployments. Amazon’s EC2 is especially attractive given the investments they have made in building out capacity...
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Big Data – Big Help or Big Risk?
By Andy Thurai Like many other open source models, Hadoop has followed a path that hasn’t focused much on security. In order to effectively use Big Data, it needs to be secured properly. However if...
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Ubisoft API (powered by Intel) – The game plays you now!
By Andy Thurai (Twitter: @AndyThurai) Remember the old days, when we used to play “graphical” games such as Tetris, and were amazed by them? Twenty years fast forward, Ubisoft is doing things to enrich...
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Internet of Things accelerates need for API Management
API Management and Internet of Things API Management is more relevant than ever with the explosive growth of internet connectivity. The Internet of Things (IoT) is following close on the heels of...
View ArticleSnowden gone, ripples remain!
– By Andy Thurai (Twitter: @AndyThurai) [Original version of this blog appeared on PandoDaily magazine.] Though Snowden is long gone now, the ripple effects that he created are going to remain for a...
View ArticleHTML5 and API Management at IDF
The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) is coming up in a few weeks, and it’s shaping up to be a great event. Mobile will be a key focus of this year’s IDF, and as you might imagine API management and HTML5...
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Transform from being a SOA-saurus to participate in the new API economy
Do you want to learn what “API surfacing” is? Do you know how to create low-touch, completely automated APIs that can convert you from existing enterprise orientedness (or being a SOA-saurus) to a more...
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Don’t be stupid, use (cloud) protection!
– By Andy Thurai (Twitter: @AndyThurai) This article originally appeared on PandoDaily. Looks like Obama read my blog! The White House got the message. Politicians now seem to understand that while...
View ArticleGartner API Management report: Intel an MQ ‘Leader’
According to Gartner API Management + SOA Governance = Application Services Governance. This year’s Magic Quadrant reflects that change, updating the title as well as some of the participants. It has...
View ArticleAPI Management is the Dog
Eric Knipp’s fantastic post (Don’t let API Management Wag the Dog) on cautioning clients on selecting a strategy prior to jumping in with an API Management vendor was excellent. It seems that many of...
View ArticleBe An Enterprise API Management Hero
It’s an exciting week in API Management with both Intel’s #IDF13 and Business of APIs conference. Most notably was John Musser’s presentation, specifically API Secret #5, which is “Internal Use may be...
View ArticleMobile Application Development at IDF 2013
Last week I (along with many other Intel Employees and customers) attended the Intel Developer Forum at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. I was impressed with the range of mobile application...
View ArticleWhy You Probably Need an API Strategy
I thoroughly enjoyed Daniel Jacobson’s talk at Mashery’s BAPI this year and have shamelessly borrowed a quote from one of his slides as a permanent fixture to my Outlook signature: It takes nearly...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Perimeter for API Security (And anything else)
SDP is nascent but beginning to get coverage from the likes of Gartner. If you are new to it, the concept is similar to an on-demand, point-to-point application level VPN. It’s main claim to fame is...
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