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Choosing the Right API Management Solution for the Enterprise User

The application programming interface (API) may be an old concept but it is one that is undergoing a transformation as, driven by mobile and cloud requirements, more and more organizations are opening their information assets to external developers.

Today, 75% of Twitter traffic and 65% of Salesforce.com traffic comes through APIs. But APIs are not just for the social Web. According to ProgrammableWeb.com, the number of open APIs being offered publicly over the Internet now exceeds 2000—up from just 32 in 2005. Opening APIs up to outside developers enables many technology start-ups to become platforms, by fostering developer communities tied to their core data or application resources. This translates into new reach (think Twitter’s rapid growth), revenue (think Salesforce.com’s AppExchange) or end user retention (think Facebook).

Securing Edge Data at the Center

Nobody can afford to lose data. But managing data, including backup and availability, in far-flung locations can present many logistical and technological challenges that bring complexity, expense, and risk. It doesn't have to be that way though.

5 OAuth Essentials for API Access Control

OAuth puts the user in control of delegating access to an API. This allows one service to integrate with another service on behalf of that user. The same social Web providers who popularized the pattern of exposing an API to enable third-party developers to enrich their platforms were the first ones to apply such delegated authorization mechanisms. OAuth was defined in 2006, to standardize mechanisms of this kind.

Top 10 Reasons to Use Steelhead SAAS

SteelHead SaaS offers up to 30x better application performance for cloud services and SaaS applications deployed in enterprises. The solution combines the best of WAN optimization with the best of Internet optimization to provide a seamless transition for users between private and public clouds. Customers experience application acceleration immediately, without requiring any configuration changes to the user or service provider environments.

Powering the Hybrid Enterprise

Numerous Forrester Research reports make the evidence clear. Its surveys show that 62 percent of employees work in multiple locations, that 51 percent of IT professionals say application complexity is their primary challenge, and that 52 percent of enterprises have more than half of their corporate data outside the data center. To deal with these challenges, IT must determine how to overcome myriad technical constraints and allow anytime, anywhere computing.

It’s All About the App: Mobile Security That Helps Enable the Business

Mobility is taking today’s world by storm. By 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion — making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe. Understandably, the pressure to deliver diverse apps to external and internal audiences is felt universally across every enterprise.

Transforming Digital Business with APIs

The app, in many digital forms, mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things, has created the opportunity for enterprises to optimize interaction with employees, customers and business partners in fundamentally new ways. Choosing the right digital platform can be the difference between success and failure.

The Disruptive Power of Big Data

Explore the big data revolution—what it is, what opportunities it creates, and what challenges exist. This new whitepaper explains why having a conversation with your data is a fundamentally different way to extract business insight and how big data analytics—and the HP Haven platform—help you do just that. It's a challenge businesses must meet if they hope to thrive in the big data era.

On the road to Big Data 20/20: How HP IT brought analytics to the business

The enterprise has experienced a data explosion over the past few years that has redefined the possible. In the HP eBook Big Data 20/20, HP experts explore what the future of Big Data and analytics means for that enterprise. The widely varied deluge of data in companies presents both challenges and opportunities to deliver greater value and gain competitive advantage.

Support the Era of the App with End-to-End Network and Application Performance Visibility

The realities of the modern IT landscape are daunting. Your business-critical applications are multi-platform, multi-tier, and span physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud environments. To reach your end user, application transactions traverse complex networks and infrastructure that are handling ever-increasing loads. In light of this, never has it been more challenging to monitor the performance and availability of the business services that your employees and customers count on. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Buyer’s Guide Evaluating Performance Management Solutions

Many are turning to technology providers to leverage a more holistic, efficient, and effective process of performance management. If you are in a similar situation, use this Buyer’s Guide to identify the capabilities that will help you increase end-user satisfaction through a better quality of service.

APM & Applications Operations: How to Make Apps Run More Efficiently in the Age of the Cloud

To achieve smooth delivery of applications at all times, Applications Operations groups need APM solutions that can give them insight and analytics to manage their apps. This SlashGuide gives IT managers a scorecard to identify APM solutions that will deliver more efficient application performance.

Building Better Code: 10 Ways to Use APM

To build such modern applications, developers could use some help. That is where application performance management (APM) solutions come in. Here are 10 ways developers can use APM to improve the quality and performance of their software.

Application Performance Management for Dummies

Application Performance Management For Dummies, Riverbed Special Edition, introduces you to application performance management (APM) solutions and how these tools can help you monitor and troubleshoot your mission-critical applications — from the perspective of your users, as well as your systems.

10 Common Problems APM Helps You Solve

Applications in today's distributed, cloud-based IT environment need to perform at their peak at all times. Unfortunately, most do not. And while many developers and IT professionals have Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, they often don't know how to take full advantage of the benefits. This SlashGuide gives IT professionals and developers practical advice they need to get the most out of APM.