The industry is full of the hype surrounding Big Data and it seems that everywhere you go there is another infographic on Big Data. Big Data has some very impressive numbers with data growing at an amazing rate. At last count we are almost at 4 Zettabytes growing to a projected 35 Zettabytes by 2020 I am sure this projection will [...]

72% of the respondents in a recent survey identified API lifecycle management as a critical capability of API management solutions.  The survey, that we conducted last week, included over 50 IT architects, developers and consultants. 80% of the survey respondents also said that they have either exposed APIs or are planning to do so in near future. As a refresher [...]

For those of you who don’t know me personally, or know me well enough, I seem to have a talent for metaphor. In fact, I think one of the things that I do best is explain complex ideas in ways others can understand, and so that they realize how the idea is relevant to them. While technically not a metaphor, [...]

Several weeks ago, I wrote a Primer on API management and I have received tons of great feedback and questions from blog readers and colleagues in the field. It’s great to see people are finding API management especially relevant to their mobile and cloud strategy.  My colleague David Bressler (has written several posts on this topic – see Enterprise API Trifecta) and has experience addressing API [...]

For the past year, leading analysts have said SOA has become a de-facto standard for all new application architectures. Which makes it hard to believe just 5 years ago, most people didn’t understand the value of SOA or how they can use it. A similar shift is unfolding today in the world of APIs. APIs are already driving significant new [...]

How does a company leverage the same energy seen in the consumer space to drive innovation inside the enterprise? Why couldn’t there be a “corporate instagram-like success”? Why can’t a corporate enterprise service bus excite imagination the way Twitter has? Often its the people way down in the trenches that have great ideas about improvements to the business. Other times, [...]