MuleSoft this week launched Mule iON SaaS Edition, providing a broad set of
new tools and services for swift software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration in
the cloud, and lowering the barrier to SaaS adoption for SaaS providers and
developers.
The Mule iON integration platform as a service (iPaaS) connects across
cloud-based applications and also connects SaaS to on-premise applications.
MuleSoft's Anypoint technology for on-demand API connectivity eliminates the
need for copious custom point-to-point code, said MuleSoft. [Disclosure:
MuleSoft is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.]
In recent commentary, Ross Mason, founder and CTO of Mulesoft, said, "The
world today is moving at lightning speed to SaaS and cloud applications, and
the idea of gaining competitive advantage through legacy enterprise
applications is no longer relevant."
I agree. Key differentiators l... (more)
When Hurricane Ike struck Texas in 2008, it became the second costliest
hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S. It was also a wake-up call for
Houston-based insurance wholesaler Myron Steves & Co., which was not struck
directly but nonetheless realized its IT disaster recovery (DR) approach was
woefully inadequate.
Supporting some 3,000 independent insurance agencies in the Gulf Coast
region, with many insured properties in that active hurricane zone, Myron
Steves must have all it resources up and available, if and when severe storms
strike.
The next BriefingsDirect discussio... (more)
The latest BriefingsDirect enterprise IT trends discussion surfaces some
fascinating new findings from a recent survey on chief information officer
(CIO)-level priorities. We uncover what distinguishes leaders from laggards
among businesses, and identify which IT approaches and solutions are driving
the most powerful business results these days.
To help dig into the HP-sponsored, blind survey, explain what it means, and
learn how these results can lead to establishing winning new IT strategies
we're joined by Joel Dobbs, President and CEO of Compass Talent Management
Group. He's... (more)
Of the 3 "V’s” of Big Data – volume, variety, velocity (we’d add
"Value” as the 4th V) – velocity has been the unsung ‘V.’ With the
spotlight on Hadoop, the popular image of Big Data is large petabyte data
stores of unstructured data (which are the first two V’s). While Big Data
has been thought of as large stores of data at rest, it can also be about
data in motion.
"Fast Data” refers to processes that require lower latencies than would
otherwise be possible with optimized disk-based storage. Fast Data is not a
single technology, but a spectrum of approaches that process data t... (more)
The latest BriefingsDirect case study discussion focuses on how business
standards and compliance services provider SAI Global is benefiting from a
strategic view of IT enabled disaster recovery (DR).
Learn here how SAI Global has brought advanced backup and DR best practices
into play for its users and customers. Examine too how this has not only
provided business continuity assurance, but it has also provided beneficial
data lifecycle management and virtualization efficiency improvement.
Mark Iveli, IT System Engineer at SAI Global, based in Sydney, Australia,
details on how s... (more)