{"id":2159,"date":"2012-06-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2161642"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:00:00","slug":"api-strategy-2012-for-the-cloud-by-the-cloud-as-platforms-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/api-strategy-2012-for-the-cloud-by-the-cloud-as-platforms-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"API Strategy 2012: For the Cloud, by the Cloud, as Platforms Emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common?  They are multi-tenant software as a service leaders &#8211; both built with billions of APIs &#8211; for the Cloud, by the Cloud.<br \/>\nThe implications this year:  API Strategy in 2012 cuts across mobile, social, and cloud.  Winning with API&#8217;s translates to understanding the economics and agility of clouds for scale, speed, and security.<br \/>\nIn 2010 Delyn Simons, formerly the head of eBay&#8217;s highly successful developer program stated, &#8220;Behind every good app is an API.&#8221; In 2012, the projection is that &#8220;behind every successful app there will be a number of APIs that power it.&#8221; Apps are becoming big business, with more than 250 million app downloads on Christmas day alone and a record number of Android, iPad, and iPhone sales during the holidays. The world has been mobile for a decade, but now the mobile world is so omnipresent and dynamic that it is altering business and culture at impressive rates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2161642\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common?  They are multi-tenant software as a service leaders &#8211; both built with billions of APIs &#8211; for the Cloud, by the Cloud.<br \/>\nThe implications this year:  API Strategy in 2012 cuts across mobile, social, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}