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Layer 7 CSO Dimitri Sirota Talks API Management Frameworks and You: The Evolving World of DevOps Data
I recently had the change to speak with Dimitri Sirota, the Chief Strategy Officer ands co-founder of Layer 7—recently acquired by leading IT acceleration company CA Technologies—about the role of API management frameworks in the enterprise and DevOps spaces and here’s the takeaway: APIs are the new web, reflecting a trend in the enterprise culture ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 1: Jeremy Liew on BTC, CEO of Braintree dismisses Bitcoins, BBC UK publishes awesome segment
This has been a relatively calm week for Bitcoin, but even as there’s no storm, no sudden bubble in price, or massive volatility to report—there’s a great deal of media attention simmering in the pot. Not only has major reportage become a mainstay of looking at BTC coverage, but outfits such as Wall Street Journal, ...
Ask DevOps: Hyperscale News Round Up, Where Do We Fit In?
In a fairly common sense, hyperscale is the practice of making sure that too much of a good thing doesn’t become a bad thing. Recently, it’s become a bright-and-steady buzz word in the enterprise IT sphere because it’s an important way to deal with the ebb and flow of attention to app infrastructure. In their ...
PayPal President Makes Surprise Commentary About Bitcoin: “We’re kinda thinking about it”
Wednesday, David Marcus, president of EBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, spoke to a Bloomberg interviewer on camera about mobile payment security and during the discussion commented—albeit briefly—on the position of the virtual currency Bitcoin. In the discussion, he mentioned his own fascination with the currency and that his company is “thinking about it” when it comes ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 April 24: Bitfloor Bites the Dust, MoneyGram and Western Union Ponder BTC, MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles On Reuters TV
This week the bitcoin markets continue to recover from the crash from $266 unto $50 (although it didn’t linger there for long before gaining to near $100) recent trades have put the value around $130. Over the weekend, MtGox had a little bit of paranoia about DDoS attacks–as are becoming evermore common–but nothing came of ...
Zooz Closes $2M Series A Funding: Making Mobile Payments Easier Worldwide
ZooZ, the startup company that offers a complete, secure, and easy-to-use payment solution for e-commerce websites and mobile apps, has secured a $2M Series A funding led by Portola Valley, CA-based XSeed. Capital, with participation from existing investors lool ventures and Rhodium, both of which also contributed to ZooZ’s seed round. “Our ability to close ...
Reuters TV Gives an Exclusive Look at MtGox, Interviews CEO Mark Karpeles
Reuters TV has interviewed CEO Mark Karpeles about Bitcoin, MtGox, and the place of this cryptocurrency in the global economy. In this exclusive, the CEO of the biggest BTC exchange talks on a multitude of subjects including the recent volatility and the future of the currency. Bitcoin has seen some ups and downs, from an ...
Western Union and MoneyGram Ponder the Future of Bitcoin
The popularity of the best-working Internet cryptocurrency in history is continuing to soar and this has brought attention to major money transmitters such as Western Union and MoneyGram. The usual economic place that both companies is to permit people to transfer sums of money across distances—be they across the US or between countries—and at the ...
Week In Review : OpenStack Rallies the Troops Against AWS
The OpenStack Summit in Portland has reflected the amazing growth of the platform and highlights that it’s this open source cloud solution’s time to stand in the sun. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier makes that clear in his editorial outlining the powers that be are more than just embracing OpenStack, they’re lining up to be part of ...
CA Technologies CTO John Michelsen Talks DevOps 101
In a way, CA Technologies has always been in the business of DevOps—the paradigm just didn’t always have the revelations and philosophy of agile development—and desire to provide a business service to clients that delivers “acceleration, transformation, and security” to IT across the globe. As business on the Internet in mobile, across the web, and ...
