Application Security

Instant API Management with Intel and Amazon Did you know you can get started with Intel Expressway API Manager on AWS Marketplace today with only a few clicks? You can have instant API Management and enhanced EC2 security for applications and services exposed from public or hybrid cloud environments. The offering is available from Amazon to anyone with a valid Amazon account. If you haven’t tried Amazon’s AWS marketplace, you can have an instance of the gateway up and running in a few minutes. Are you looking to mobile enable an Enterprise application need to expose an API? Are you looking to try a flexible DevOps model for cloud bursting? Are you looking to provide a centralized API governance, security and throttling layer for Enterprise applications? If so, Expressway can help. Here are four things you can do today with Intel Expressway on Amazon AWS Marketplace... (more)

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 in line with the standard platform technology definition, an API management platform  supports the deployment of Enterprise APIs without the introduction and expense of a new process or technology. A platform allows the management of APIs as a first class citizen for the Enterprise. In J.K. Rowling’s novel “Harry Potter”, choosing the right platform makes all the difference. To dat... (more)

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 should) know but Aepona, you may not have heard of. They’re likely behind many of the telco or utility services you use. They build and support the API platform need to run and charge for the business. I’m between conferences at the moment. I gave several talks at Nordic APIs on API management and protection a few weeks ago and will be doing similar at Apps World next week. One conce... (more)

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 what it might be like to actually sign-up for “Obamacare” insurance on October 1st. Why not make it easy for folks? Let’s push for an Obamacare API. The NPR article implies homework involved, suggesting that applying for health insurance through the website would be closer to a root canal procedure rather than buying socks on Amazon.com. Rather than publish and own the healthcare.... (more)

APIs and Mobile Middleware – A Match Made in Heaven

We just don’t talk enough about the intersection of APIs and mobile middleware, but they really are a match made in heaven. APIs are the prevailing interface model, mobile middleware provides the Enterprise grade security and scalability, and HTML5 keeps mobile fragmentation costs at bay. It all came together last week at IDF 2013. Here is a picture of the demo pod rocking a full end-to-end demo with Expressway API Manager. Expressway API and Mobile Middleware Demo @ IDF2013 The use case was a conference room booking demo which helps large Enterprises (like Intel) optimize the us... (more)