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IBM Integration Bus video resources – showcasing IIB uniqueness
I am a firm believer of the phrase “a picture speaks a thousand words”, especially when it comes to technology and software. However, an even more powerful way of showing the capabilities, features and...
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WebSphere eXtreme Scale is better than OSS and Oracle
In-memory data grids (IMDG) have been around for over a decade now and there are commercial and Open-Source Software (OSS) versions of them. IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale (WXS) is IBM’s in-memory data...
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IBM API Management, much more user-friendly and productive than Oracle API...
In recent years, API Management has become an area of interest for many CIOs trying to monetize their authored APIs, effectively turning a cost center into a profit center. To be successful, you need...
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TIBCO is going private
If you are a TIBCO customer (or are considering TIBCO), you must have heard by now that TIBCO is going private. TIBCO, which had seen dropping revenues and pressure to sell due to mismanagement,...
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Beware of exaggerated and misleading integration claims to IBM products – the...
You’ve probably heard the term “co-opetition” before. In my mind, when two companies become partners, there is an implicit understanding that both will work together, i.e. join forces, to help each...
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WebSphere eXtreme Scale – a better choice than Infinispan
There are many commercial and open-source software offerings in the in-memory data grid (IMDG) market nowadays. An IMDG offers many benefits, some of which are: Consistent and predictable performance...
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Why Solace is not good for an IBM MQ customer
Solace systems is a small venture-capital-based company with a messaging appliance that it positions as a messaging backbone. One of their use cases is for the consolidation of IBM MQ workloads. To...
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TIBCO acquires Mashery after 1 year and 10 months of releasing their own API...
On August 25, TIBCO announced that they will acquire Mashery from Intel for a yet undisclosed amount in the next few weeks. In their announcement they also mentioned the following: Mashery’s offering...
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WebSphere eXtreme Scale eXtreme Memory (XM) on Power
There are many in-memory data grid (IMDG) products in the market with a wide variety of capabilities and functionality. One of the challenges that IMDG products have to deal with is the management of...
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IBM API Connect sets a new API Management standard
On February 16, 2016, IBM announced IBM API Connect V5.0 extending the capabilities of its API Management offering to include microservices. Unlike current API Management offerings in the market today,...
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Red Hat acquires 3scale – why wait until the dust settles?
Red Hat has finally filled a big gap in their product portfolio by acquiring 3scale, a small privately-held vendor, with about 40 employees, offering an API Management solution. Existing Red Hat...
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The latest API Vendor to be gobbled up – Apigee
On September 8, 2016, Google (Alphabet, Inc.) announced that it had agreed to buy Apigee, the latest API vendor to be acquired. The total deal is valued at about $625M ($17.40/share), which equates to...
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Axway’s misleading claims about IBM DataPower Gateway
API Management has become a key enabler of digital transformations and the API Gateway, one of its fundamental components, has taken center stage. There are many API management vendors in the market...
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Rogue Wave acquires Akana (ex-SOA Software)
On November 29, 2016, Rogue Wave announced their acquisition of Akana (ex-SOA Software) for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, Rogue Wave has entered the API Management market. API...
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