The API Economy is here. Enterprises are making business applications available through APIs to drive business growth and expose new opportunities. The business landscape is being reshaped as dramatically as it was during the rush to create an Internet presence with a web site in the late 90s. APIs are becoming the primary way that businesses interact with their customers, reach new markets, and provide the global app development community with the tools to deliver innovative new business capabilities to customers.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Corey Scobie, VP of Technology of SOA Software, will show how businesses are harnessing the power of APIs to reach new customers and markets. He will walk the audience through the growth and evolution of the API, why effective API management us important, how the game changes when companies expose business applications to the outside world.

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Cloud computing has gained momentum and is increasingly being embraced by enterprises of all sizes. But the cloud itself is often its own worst enemy as performance, reliability, and the lack of enterprise-level capabilities has led to obstacles in growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology. This is only exacerbated by an increasingly mobile and global world, one that is plagued with security concerns. In his Lunctime Keynote at Cloud Expo New York, Neil Cohen, Akamai’s VP of Enterprise Application Products, discusses the challenges you face in the cloud, and how you can leverage both public and hybrid cloud infrastructures without sacrificing security or control.

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Gartner recently issued a research note on “Cloud-Based Security Services,” the capability to deliver security controls without on-premise technology deployment and management. The category currently sits in the “Trough of Disillusionment” in the latest Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, meaning the technologies offered have failed to meet market expectations.
Gartner suggests that users investigate specific areas in their cloud implementations and SLAs, including service continuity, response time, and customization to ensure they deliver on the expected outcomes. A key design goal of the PerspecSys Cloud Data Protection Gateway was to offer multiple deployment options, including cloud data protection as a service. Our validated Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) hosting partners are well-equipped and experienced in supporting enterprise mission-critical business requirements. Our IaaS partners have a long history of providing a variety of enterprise services – including security – without any on-premise infrastructure, and they do not compromise on service continuity, response time, or user customization. Our cloud data protection virtual service is underpinned through our partners’ SLAs, consistent with what enterprise companies have come to expect.

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As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and roadmap for moving to the cloud. Faced with different options including building a private cloud, subscribing to public clouds, or leveraging a hybrid cloud, organizations need a rational and pragmatic approach. In this Lunchtime Keynote Amir Halfon explores the emerging trends in cloud computing and offers best practices for how organizations can successfully navigate a journey to the cloud.
Amir Halfon is Chief Technologist for Financial Services at Oracle, where he oversees the development of industry-specific solutions and strategy, addressing challenges such as Bid Data analytics, on-demand risk management and deep customer insight.

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NYSE Euronext’s innovative cloud and groundbreaking business model targets the needs of Wall Street IT leaders.
We’ll learn about how this innovative cloud and groundbreaking business model targets the needs of Wall Street IT leaders, how the business of the financial services industry has received them, and explore how providing cloud services as a business has evolved.
We’ve been very happy with the progress we’ve made. When we announced at VMworld last year, we had just gone into early access for our first clients in our data center in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-state area, where we have all of our US-based markets running the New York Stock Exchange Markets, the Arca Electronic Markets, and AMEX

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We are in the midst of an API revolution. Countless major enterprises are opening up access to their core information systems, allowing innovative third-party developers to build new business opportunities through collaboration and community. However, this remarkable movement puts pressure on IT to manage APIs. The goal is to ensure optimal business outcomes through APIs without inadvertently creating security and system management problems or running up unsustainable costs.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software, will address this challenge by exploring some proven best practices for API management.

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SUSE claims it’s got the first enterprise-supported private Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud solution powered by the Essex version of OpenStack, the open source platform that Red Hat is also supporting.
Red Hat’s widgetry, now in preview, won’t solidify until next year. SUSE’s is ready to roll.
It calls the stuff SUSE Cloud, which is supposed to be easier to deploy and manage than Rackspace’s OpenStack package because it’s integrated Crowbar in the thing.

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There are way too many PaaS options around, so AppFog has enveloped one of them and will suck up its technology.

It’s acquired Nodester, the open source PaaS for Node.js, which it says grew 40% in the last 30 days.

AppFog is using Nodester’s intellectual property to collaborate with VMware to deliver WebSocket support in Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open source PaaS.

According to Krishnan Subramanian, founder and principal analyst at Rishidot Research, “It is clear that polyglot and infrastructure agnostic PaaS solutions are the future of PaaS. As enterprise acceptance of PaaS continues to ramp up it is likely that we will see a wave of consolidation.”

AppFog CEO Lucas Carlson means to be that consolidator.

There are something like 200 PaaSs in the world all doing things differently and in the fashion of the times not letting developers know where their apps are deployed or take them and run. Single language PaaSs are, as Nodester founder Chris Matthieu discovered, too limiting.

Carlson says standardization is needed before the enterprise finds the PaaS “too ugly.” They need to run across all vendors and public, private and hybrid clouds, all looking the same.

He figures his crusade will take him three-five years. As AppFog strengthens, the weak sisters will wither. Carlson means to be the last man standing with a couple of “ankle-biters” surviving. Evidently his VCs are backing his play.

Returning to the present, AppFog will keep Nodester running as an independent service until WebSocket support is integrated into AppFog later this year and Matthieu decides whether he wants to stay or go. At that point the applications will move into the AppFog infrastructure, giving Nodester users access to all AppFog features including cross-cloud vendor compatibility. They will be able to deploy apps to a wide range of different IaaS providers.

AppFog’s PaaS supports Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, PHP and Ruby solutions. It did Node.js before Nodester, whose widgetry is deeper and broader than what AppFog had. AppFog also inherits a reported significant community, doubling its own.

Node is tied with PHP as the most popular language on AppFog with the most number of applications running. AppFog claims to have deployed 60,000 mobile and web apps to the cloud.

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