Tag Archives: Alcatel Lucent

May 7, 2013 Posted in Business 8 Comments

Who Said Dell is Dead? Enstratius Acquisition and Boomi API Management Play Suggest Reinvention is in Progress

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday Jo Maitland, GigaOm Pro Analyst, published a pretty damning post in which she characterized both Dell and BMC as, essentially, the living dead. Her view was that the move to privatize the companies (a done deal for BMC, in progress for Dell) is a last-gasp effort to resuscitate a

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April 2, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Alcatel Lucent Enters the SDN Fray

By Ben Kepes

You know something has moved from being just something the cognoscenti talk about to being known on a widespread basis when traditional companies start talking it up. In the case of Software Defined Networking (SDN) some would say that the notion has already jumped the shark as we hear about

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December 11, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

MuleSoft Launches API Repository and Community Resource

By Ben Kepes

MuleSoft, the integration platform for both SaaS and on-premise applications, is today announcing the launch of APIhub, a public repository and community resource for API discovery. The idea of the hub is to give both application developers, and enterprise customers the ability to find and use a wide selection of

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September 6, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Alcatel-Lucent Open Sources its API Management Engine

By Ben Kepes

I remember when OpenStack was announced – the creation of an open source solution in a formerly entirely proprietary area was something of a bomb shell. Regardless of your thoughts around open stack as a product (or, more correctly a series of product), it’s hard to be critical of an

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August 17, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Alcatel Lucent’s Big API Bet

By Ben Kepes

Last week Alcatel Lucent made an announcement which, at first blush, seems kind of boring. They’ve released a  methodology for creating APIs, they’ve made the methodology available through Creative Commons as a front end for a new consulting practice that helps enterprises work through the processes involved in moving to

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June 24, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

SOA Rolls out an API Management Solution

By Ben Kepes

It seems like every week I spend time talking to one or another of the many API management vendors that seem to be popping up with great regularity. In the last couple of months alone I’ve moderated a great focus.com roundtable that had me talking with Mike Maney from Alcatel

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April 11, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The API Economy–Webinar

By Ben Kepes

This morning I had an enjoyable 45 minutes spent with Sam Ramji from Apigee, Delyn Simons from Mashery and the inimitable Mike Maney from Alcatel-Lucent discussing the API economy and the opportunities and challenges that it raises. It was a fun and interesting session and was motivated, at least in

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April 1, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

The Flip Side of an API Economy

By Ben Kepes

I spend a lot of time talking about the amazing value that connected applications can bring. The thing that powers this value is the humble API – the little widget that sits between disparate applications and allows them to make magic. But all is not happy in API land, GigaOm

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December 17, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The REAL Firehose, and Securing the Value of Telcos with Alcatel Lucent

By Ben Kepes

I posted the other day about the twitter firehose and specifically the announcement that Gnip would be selling access to a trimmed version of the feed. I intimated about the “other firehose” an aggregation of data that even makes the 1000 or so Tweets a second that the full Twitter

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November 2, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Gluecon, Alcatel Lucent and the Democratic Demo

By Ben Kepes

Regular readers of this blog, or followers on Twitter will know that I’m permanently positive about the events put on by Eric and Kim Norlin, Gluecon and defrag. Just in case you were wondering, I don’t benefit from their events – yes I’m an adviser but my attendance, on an

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