Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

My good friend Loraine Lawson posts in her blog an observation that’s evolved for the last few years: SOA governance is morphing into API management. Coming from the world of service-oriented architecture (SOA), I may have been in denial. However, many of the items that were once considered SOA, such as service governance, are now focused on the cloud, including API management.

The technology is a great fit — runtime service governance products (from Layer 7, Oracle, Vordel, and a few others) have a huge value in controlling and managing cloud services or APIs. The technology providers saw the matchup. They rebranded to the cloud and followed many of the newer cloud API management providers, such as Apigee and Mashery…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

Google is letting more App Engine users choose to run their applications in a European data center, in order to improve performance for local users or to meet compliance demands.

App Engine is Google’s cloud-based platform for hosting Web applications written using Java, Python or an experimental implementation of the Go programming language. The ability to host applications in Europe was first announced in June, but was then only offered to users with a so-called Premier account, which cost $500 per month. Google is now changing that to include all paying users, the company said in a blog post on Thursday…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.

Corona Labs, maker of the cross-platform mobile development framework Corona SDK, has acquired backend cloud service provider Game Minion to help game developers more easily create apps that integrate with server code. No price was disclosed. Game Minion is a Dubai-based company that relies on Amazon Web Services infrastructure, with funding from Draper Investment Company. Game Minion, which will be renamed Corona Cloud, is presently in closed beta testing and is expected to be made available in the first quarter of 2013.

Corona Cloud relies on a RESTful API, meaning that communication between a developer’s app and the remote server can be coded in a way that’s standardized and portable. This makes it easy to reconfigure a cloud-connected app to communicate with a different backend host if necessary. Mohamed Hamedi, co-founder of Game Minion, said in a statement that his company is focused on offering simple backend services to developers. "Through this acquisition, we will provide the most complete end-to-end mobile development platform on the market," he said. "Features that would normally require the integration of half a dozen SDKs will be offered by Corona Labs in just one, neatly packaged API."…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

When the youthful Michael Gregoire takes over as CEO of CA Technologies on April 1, he will find he’s inherited a large company in a state of transition.
CA is caught between breaking away from dependence on mainframe products, which still provide 80% of its revenues, and initiating new cloud and virtual infrastructure management products, which have not yet taken off. Riding these two horses in tandem may prove a tricky balancing act for any CEO.

Gregoire, 46, was selected by CA’s board Thursday to succeed William McCracken, who initiated the company’s transition when he took office in January 2010. He is stepping down at the age of 70 before the transition can be brought to full bloom. Gregoire is the former of chairman, president and CEO of Taleo, the talent management software firm acquired by Oracle in February for $1.9 billion. Gregoire took Taleo from $78 million to $324 million over a seven year period. He will join CA on Jan. 7…

Grazed from NewTek. Author: PR Announcement.

All week we’ve made you aware of issues facing small business in 2013. We’ve discussed Obamacare, small business lending, eCommerce solutions and CyberSecurity. Today we talk Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing for SMART results. Cloud computing allows all of a small business’s critical transactions, as well as economic, ecommerce and web site traffic data to be accessible at anytime, anywhere – with the proper application. Something like the Newtek Advantage is extremely beneficial to small business owners, allowing them to see their real-time business information from any smartphone or tablet. Cloud computing is SMART, because it allows for:…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

They’re dropping like flies to OpenStack’s siren song. The open source cloud platform’s latest conquest is EMC, whose VMware subsidiary already did a seemingly unthinkable thing a few months ago and joined the rival band as a gold member. EMC is only joining as a corporate-level sponsor.

To explain why EMC, a born street fighter, would tie up at all with a movement pledged to destroy VMware, the company wheeled out its global marketing CTO Chuck Hollis who blogged that OpenStack is catching on like Linux did and even though it may still be immature customers are asking about it…

Grazed from GigaOM.   Author: Barb Darrow.

What we still don’t know is what the emergence of this new entity means for the Cloud Foundry ecosystem — the third parties that built their own platforms atop the Cloud Foundry platform. Officially, no one’s saying anything beyond VMware’s opaque blog post announcing the move. Basically, VMware told us all to check back in Q1 2013 for details…