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    Posted on June 17th, 2009

    Written by Chet Kapoor

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    Analytics, API, API Management, Cloud Data, Cloud Services, Scalability

    APIs will decide the next generation Web sites

    Jonathan Mendez wrote an AWESOME blog post on API Battle Plans: Fighting for Next. Liked the concept of CUDA – content, utility, data and analytics.
    At Sonoa we completely agree with Jonathan’s assessment. As with all inflections points, we will only know after we have passed it, but it certainly fees like we have either reached [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on June 2nd, 2009

    Written by Chet Kapoor

    Tags

    Analytics, API Management, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Cloud Standards

    Opportunity & dangers ahead for cloud computing

    Ariel Silverstone wrote last week on the dangers and opportunity of cloud security ahead. Agree with his take that time to market is one of the biggest drivers for cloud computing. Going from months to weeks in set-up time increases productivity and potential revenue. Silverstone also notes that standards are important – the CSA [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on May 15th, 2009

    Written by Chet Kapoor

    Tags

    Analytics, API Management, Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Scalability, Web Services

    Google’s service outages – what can we learn from it?

    Everyone’s been weighing in on yesterday’s Google outage experienced by 14% of their user base in Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Analytics, YouTube, Blogger and AdSense. Unfortunately outages do happen inside and outside the enterprise. Some are more visible than others. For all those cloud skeptics sitting on the side lines, saying “I told [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on April 29th, 2009

    Written by admin

    Tags

    Analytics, API, API Management, Cloud Services, Enterprise 2.0, SaaS

    How to manage the cloud?

    Tim Madewell is VP of operations at Innotas, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of project portfolio management. Innotas addresses issues of visibility, access control, compliance and performance for enterprise customers and hybrid apps to differentiate its service and provide competitive advantage. He recently sat down with us to discuss how Sonoa helps him with security, [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on April 23rd, 2009

    Written by admin

    Tags

    Analytics, API, API Management, Cloud Security, Enterprise 2.0, Social Computing, Web 2.0, Web Services

    Is it time for enterprise to meet social computing?

    Michael Richardson, CTO at a company called SelectMinds, is doing some innovative things in the enterprise social computing space today. He and I fleshed out some thoughts on this topic in a piece that was published today in ZDNet. We discuss how social computing can help your company innovate and why you should jump in. [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on April 20th, 2009

    Written by Chet Kapoor

    Tags

    Analytics, API, API Architecture, API Management, Cloud Services, Web Services

    Q&A With Aaron D. Smith, Product Manager, QuickArrow

    I recently sat down with my friend Aaron Smith to get his thoughts on the business benefits of APIs. You can read more of Aaron’s thoughts on APIs here.
    What do you see as the business benefits of APIs?
    Just like every business has its own processes and revenue models, not all will benefit from APIs in [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on April 16th, 2009

    Written by admin

    Tags

    Analytics, API, API Deployment, API Design, API Development, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Design

    The API revolution

    Here at Sonoa we are in the API business – helping companies open and consume. Today is an API Revolution of sorts. So, the question we sometimes encounter is what’s an API and why should your company have one?
    So why do you need an API? For one thing, everyone else is diving into the API [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on April 8th, 2009

    Written by admin

    Tags

    Analytics, API, Cloud Architecture, Convergence, Scalability

    Cloud convergence

    I recently wrote a post for ebizQ on APIs as the key to cloud convergence, which discusses the convergence of two cloud models cropping up today – both the “outside-in” revenue and “inside-out” cost views from the cloud. More detail in the ebizQ piece.
    When consuming or producing cloud services from the enterprise point of view, [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on March 31st, 2009

    Written by admin

    Tags

    Analytics, API Development, Cloud Design, Cloud Services, Cloud Standards, SaaS, Web Services

    Now is the time for cloud adoption

    Julian Goldsmith wrote last week on a recent Silicon.com survey of CIOs about whether cloud computing is “part of their IT strategy to cut costs.” The majority of those surveyed said no, they are not looking to cloud computing to cut costs today. This resistance is to be expected and really comes as no surprise. [...]

  • Thoughts

    Posted on March 24th, 2009

    Written by admin

    Tags

    Analytics, API, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Design, Cloud Services, Cloud Standards, SaaS, Scalability

    The cloud forecast for mid-sized businesses

    The cloud conversation today often centers on how cloud computing can benefit the enterprise. However, it’s really those mid-sized companies and departments within larger companies that have the needs and capabilities to cloud compute.
    Mid-sized companies are just trying to survive today’s shaky economic climate and they need the capability to scale with their needs quickly [...]

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