SOA Software on Monday announced API Management for the IBM WebSphere DataPower family of SOA appliances. “APIs present a challenge to IT organizations today,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. “SOA Software’s unique approach to API management on DataPower allows IT organizations to keep pace with technology advances presented by next generation mobile and web applications while benefiting from the same rich enterprise support we already offer customers today.”
The new solution manages the full lifecycle of DataPower-based APIs and extends the capabilities of the widely deployed SOA Software Integrated Governance Solution for IBM DataPower.
This unified approach to managing both APIs and services extends the capabilities of DataPower infrastructure, enabling mobile and web solutions for internal mainframe and WebSphere MQ based services. SOA Software’s API Gateway, Lifecycle Manager for APIs and Community Manager have been integrated with DataPower, providing our customers a seamless API Management solution.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
What’s hot in CRM 2013: Strong interest in mobile for sales and service
Gartner published the report What’s Hot in CRM Applications in 2013, by Ed Thompson on June 20, 2013. The report covers areas of interest by clients in the four areas of marketing, sales, customer service and e-commerce.
The report states that “the 2013 What’s Hot list was compiled after examining Gartner inquiry volumes by topic. It was then supplemented by asking all Gartner CRM analysts to offer their opinions on what has been generating the most interest during all the client inquiries they have taken since the end of 2012 and in the beginning of 2013.”
Big data, cloud, social, mobile and the Internet of Things are the five catalysts that are driving inquiries in the hottest areas of interest.
Gartner’s Ed Thompson, author of the report, states that “this is where our clients’ interests lie, although not their current CRM spending.” Technologies highlighted in red are …
Is the Cloud the Right Solution for Your App?
It is surprising to see how every new technology suddenly becomes the thing that will solve every problem. The cloud is no different. Everybody rushes to migrate their applications to the cloud because they think this will magically make them faster, cheaper, agile, competitive and… add any other buzzword that comes to mind. Well, not so fast! You don’t need to move every single application to the cloud! Or at lest not in its current state.
There are thousands of articles on Internet that discuss what applications are applicable for the cloud (including several that I have written) and what are not. There are also thousands of articles discussing the different cloud technologies and how they can be used. Unfortunately what I have seen in the last four years is that people don’t pay attention to those writings and choose applications that are not applicable for the cloud or severely misuse the technology.
Is the Cloud the Right Solution for Your App?
It is surprising to see how every new technology suddenly becomes the thing that will solve every problem. The cloud is no different. Everybody rushes to migrate their applications to the cloud because they think this will magically make them faster, cheaper, agile, competitive and… add any other buzzword that comes to mind. Well, not so fast! You don’t need to move every single application to the cloud! Or at lest not in its current state.
There are thousands of articles on Internet that discuss what applications are applicable for the cloud (including several that I have written) and what are not. There are also thousands of articles discussing the different cloud technologies and how they can be used. Unfortunately what I have seen in the last four years is that people don’t pay attention to those writings and choose applications that are not applicable for the cloud or severely misuse the technology.
Microsoft report shows channel partner success in selling cloud
Microsoft has had a lot to say in terms of cloud computing developments in recent months, and this latest report in association with IDC may come as no surprise: channel partners who have more than 50% of revenue in cloud are experiencing major payoffs in business growth.
The report surfaced at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC13) in Houston, and found that cloud partners perform better in various KPIs; revenue per employee, higher gross profit, higher customer acquisition, and of course faster growth.
But how many partners are there? The stats from the opening day’s play at WPC13, as The VAR Guy reports, were impressive.
3.2m businesses currently use Office 365; 150,000 partners worldwide are able to sell Office 365 and Microsoft cloud services. Over the past 12 months, 22,000 partners did sell Microsoft public cloud services – certainly impressive figures. But what other trends did …
Michael Dell’s Buyout Scheme Gets ISS Backing
Michael Dell’s scheme to take the company he started in his dorm room 30 years ago private for $13.65 a share got backing Monday from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the biggest of the shareholder advisory firms.
The news, which represents a sudden about-face for ISS compared to its position last week according to Bloomberg, didn’t come a moment too soon.
Last Friday word leaked out that Michael and private equity house Silver Lake Partners refused to up the original $24.4 billion bid although the board’s special committee, responsible for weighing offers for the company, recommended a sweetener. As a result Dell shares dropped to $13.03 on fears the proposal might fall apart.
Now the committee has gotten behind the ISS recommendation.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Managed Cloud Hosting
“We have moved on from hosting to managed hosting to managed cloud hosting. We build and operate clouds for high performance clouds for business-critical applications,” explained Mike Donaldson, CMO of HOSTING, stated, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
IBM Closes on SoftLayer, Nails First Joint Account
IBM said Monday that it had closed its estimated ~$2 billion acquisition of public cloud infrastructure house SoftLayer Technologies, which is supposed to help Big Blue compete against IaaS market leader Amazon Web Services.
The eight-year-old company has been paired with IBM’s private SmartCloud unit to create a new Cloud Services Division reporting to GM Jim Comfort to pursue a share of what IDC figures could be a $105 billion market by 2016.
Before the acquisition IBM had an internal goal of reaching $7 billion in cloud revenue by the end of 2015, a bogie that reportedly remains unchanged. IBM’s cloud revenues were up a reported 80% last year.
SoftLayer brings IBM 13 data centers worldwide and 21,000 customers, largely SMBs. The new IBM division where SoftLayer now lives will be chasing both IBM and SoftLayer clients, ISVs, and channel and technology partners.
SOA Software Announces API Management for DataPower
SOA Software on Monday announced API Management for the IBM WebSphere DataPower family of SOA appliances. “APIs present a challenge to IT organizations today,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. “SOA Software’s unique approach to API management on DataPower allows IT organizations to keep pace with technology advances presented by next generation mobile and web applications while benefiting from the same rich enterprise support we already offer customers today.”
The new solution manages the full lifecycle of DataPower-based APIs and extends the capabilities of the widely deployed SOA Software Integrated Governance Solution for IBM DataPower.
This unified approach to managing both APIs and services extends the capabilities of DataPower infrastructure, enabling mobile and web solutions for internal mainframe and WebSphere MQ based services. SOA Software’s API Gateway, Lifecycle Manager for APIs and Community Manager have been integrated with DataPower, providing our customers a seamless API Management solution.
Technical enablement of Microsoft SMB cloud services is easy. Selling to SMBs is not. Parallels has the solution.
Starting a hosting or cloud business is easy. Whether you are a small hoster or web designer, infrastructure provider, managed service provider or telco, it just takes buying the right software to automate those services. Parallels has a whole portfolio for the small to the large business. That does not mean you will be successful.
Service providers fail because they think that putting a catalog up is sufficient. It is not. The most successful providers have an end to end marketing and sales enablement plan to go with the offer. They take into account up-sell and cross-sell scenarios. They have a strong feedback loop so that they can tune their offers.
We, at Parallels, believe that it is part of our responsibility to give you the tools you need to be successful. That is why we created PartnerNet. This is the location for our partners to get all the best practices and information needed to be successful.
We will be bringing a taste of PartnerNet to you at Microsoft WPC. Come meet with Birger Steen, our CEO, Mauro Meanti, SVP and GM SP Business and of course, yours truly while we present “Succeeding in the SMB Cloud with Microsoft and Parallels” on Monday, July 8 at 4:30 PM in the Hilton Americas. After that session, you will know what it takes to sell those Microsoft cloud services and more. You can also come to the booth and drop off your business card for a chance to win a Surface!
See you there!
John Zanni, Vice President SP Marketing and Alliances
