IoT, Cloud, API predictions for 2016

This article was originally published on DataInformed. Co-authored with Mac Devine of IBM. The year 2016 will be exciting in terms of applied technologies. We see a lot of technologies maturing and moving from lab exercises to real-world business technologies that solve real-life customer problems – especially in the areas of digital […]

Is your API an asset or a liability?

VENTURE BEAT A touchy API topic is data ownership and liability, regardless of whether the APIs are open or protected. Obviously, depending on your business model and needs, you will choose to expose the APIs and the underlying assets to your developers, partners, public developers, your consumers, or others that […]

A Proud Storytelling Moment: Know Your Elevator Pitches

IoT, API, Big Data, Mobile, SOA, Cloud & Security Blog Twitter: @AndyThurai This story originally featured on Innovation Insights @ Wired magazine. The year was 2002. Right after 9/11 everyone was hurting, especially the telco sector got almost wiped out – Nortel, Lucent, Alcatel, Avaya, Worldcom, MCI, and the list goes on. Some […]

How to build a hybrid SaaS API management strategy

GIGAOM If you’re trying to combine both a legacy and a cloud deployment strategy without having to do everything twice a hybrid strategy might offer the best of both worlds. That’s we discussed in our first post API Management – Anyway you want it!. In that post, we discussed the different […]

API management —Any way you want it!

GIGAOM Enterprises are building an API First strategy to keep up with their customer needs, and provide resources and services that go beyond the confines of enterprise. With this shift to using APIs as an extension of their enterprise IT, the key challenge still remains choosing the right deployment model. Even […]

How APIs Fuel Innovation

WIRED There has been so much talk about APIs and how they add additional revenue channels, create brand new partnerships, allow business partners to integrate with ease, and how they help with promoting your brand. But an important and under looked aspect, which happens to be a byproduct of this […]

Why we need more control over where our sensitive data is stored, analyzed and processed

Venture Beat Image Credit: Shutterstock Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer brandingDownload eBook Andy Thurai is chief architect and CTO of Intel App security and Big Data (@AndyThurai). David Houlding is privacy strategist at Intel (@DavidHoulding). These days, everyone seems to want our personal […]

Don’t be stupid, use (cloud) protection!

PANDO No matter how you feel about the NSA and the wide net it casts in surveilling people, one thing is certain: All this talk about spying on Americans and foreigners is having an effect on some businesses, namely American cloud companies. It’s also afforded opportunities to cloud companies based […]

Is the CMO now the Chief API Officer?

This guest post comes from Andy Thurai. Andy is the Chief Architect & Group CTO for the Intel unit that is responsible for Cloud/ Application security, API, Big Data, SOA and Mobile middleware solutions. You can follow him @AndyThurai (Twitter) or at thurai.net. Gartner analyst Laura McLellan made a bold statement in her […]