Layer7 Tech Journal

As I mentioned in my last blog post, the promise of cost reduction is compelling many enterprises to move their workloads into the Cloud but many IT leaders are reluctant to do so, for fear of compromising the security and availability of their services. These concerns are well-founded but the benefits of Cloud are too great to ignore. To obtain these benefits, companies must adopt techniques that protect against the attendant risks, without compromise. Many people are familiar with Layer 7’s industry-leading security functionality, so it’s no surprise that I’d recommend using our Gateway technology to protect connections from on-premise infrastructure to off-premise Cloud services. The flexibility of deployment options we offer makes it possible to create a network of secure on- and off-premise endpoints to meet the most stringent requirements. This covers securit... (more)

Big Data – A Sea Change of Capabilities in IT

"Big data represents a sea change of capabilities in IT" notes Matt McLarty, Vice President, Client Solutions at Layer 7 Technologies, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. McLarty continued: "In conjunction with mobile and cloud, I think Big Data will provide a technological makeover to the typical enterprise infrastructure, drawing a hard API border in front of core business services while blurring the line between logic and data services." Cloud Computing Journal: Agree or disagree? - "While the IT savings aspect is compelling, the strongest be... (more)

Layer 7 Technologies to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of Application Gateways for SOA integration, cloud connectivity and API management, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Layer 7 Technologies helps enterprises secure and govern interactions between their organizations and the services they use in the cloud, across the Internet, and out t... (more)

Cloud Expo New York: Making Hybrid Cloud Safe and Reliable

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Enterprises want to mix the best of their own data centers with private and public cloud services without compromising security and uptime. Making internal information assets available to work across private and public clouds requires a management layer that can stitch together disparate services to create a hybrid enterprise. This requires a way to abstract, secure and manage information flows across all domains. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Matt McLarty, Vice President of Client Solutions at Layer 7, will cover prov... (more)

Using URI Templates on XML Security Gateways

Earlier this fall, Anil John put out the following Twitter challenge: “@Vordel, @layer7, @IBM_DataPower If you support REST, implement support for URI templates in XML Security Gateways” Somebody brought Anil’s tweet to our attention this week, and Jay Thorne, who leads our tactical group, put together a nice example of just how to do this using SecureSpan Gateways. URI templates are a simple idea to formalize variable expansion inside URI prototypes. A receiving system can then trivially parse out substituted components of the URI and use these as input. There’s an IETF submissio... (more)