{"id":747745,"date":"2013-04-22T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=633193"},"modified":"2013-04-22T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:16:59","slug":"ca-snaps-up-layer-7-as-api-management-arena-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747745","title":{"rendered":"CA snaps up Layer 7 as API management arena heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The management and quality control of application programming interfaces or APIs is hot now. That’s why CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7<\/a>\u00a0in a deal announced Monday, just days after Intel announced plans to by Mashery,<\/a> another API management player. Mulesoft<\/a>, another API management player, just snagged $37 million in Series E venture funding, bringing its total to $81 million.<\/p>

\"CA<\/a>Successful implementations of APIs enable applications to talk to each other and share data with other authorized applications. And, according to CA:<\/p>

“the combination of CA and Layer 7 solutions will help organizations to better manage and secure APIs and deliver more confidently and quickly the cloud, mobile and composite applications that run today\u2019s business services.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

As GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham explained last year: APIs are “the connective tissue of the cloud.” A company can offer API access to its own web services or data either “for a fee or as a way of\u00a0building out its own platform<\/a>,” she wrote. Amazon, for example, publishes APIs to its own web services to enable customers to make use of those web services.<\/p>

As an example, if you have an app for Acme Airlines that alerts you of flight delays or changes, that app was enabled by Acme’s APIs. The availability of\u00a0well-written and documented APIs can build a network effect around the services themselves, making them more ubiquitous and potentially more valuable to users.\u00a0Companies like Mashery, Layer 7, Apigee<\/a> and Mulesoft make sure their customers’ APIs are well crafted to enable the smooth flow of authorized information to flow from one application to another.<\/p>

The news of the buyout, terms of which were not disclosed, comes out of CA World,<\/a> the company’s annual customer conference in Las Vegas. It’s a big week for legacy IT players to buy stuff: Earlier on Monday CA rival IBM said it’s purchasing UrbanCode<\/a>\u00a0to bolster its devops expertise.<\/p>
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