One really neat feature in the Vordel Application Gateway is the ability to
schedule reports on API and Web Service usage. You can schedule reports to
run on a regular basis, and have the results emailed to the user in PDF
format, just like Google Analytics. These reports include summary values at
the top (for example, the number of requests, SLA breaches, alerts triggered,
and unique clients in a specified week) followed by a table of APIs and
Services, and their aggregated usage data (for example, the number of
requests on each API or Web Service).
It is quite simple to configure this with the Vordel Application Gateway.
Just right-click the Listeners -> Vordel Reporter node in the Policy Studio
tree, and follow the configuration steps which are listed here on the Vordel
Extranet:
https://extranet.vordel.com/documentation2/VG6/common/tutorials/reporter_scheduled_r... (more)
When an organization says they are "using the cloud", it can mean a number of
very different things. Using an IaaS service such as Amazon EC2 or Terremark
is different from using Google Apps for outsourced email, which is different
again from exposing an API into Facebook.
So here is a video of three Cloud Computing case studies from Vordel
's customers. They cover one each of SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. In first two
examples, customers are connecting up to the Cloud; firstly to Google Apps
(for single-sign-on to Google Apps email) and secondly to Terremark to manage
virtual servers. In... (more)
I've written an article on Leveraging Cloud Computing for the Financial
Services Sector for Bob's Guide in London.
Some key points are brokering:
One option to achieve this is to use a broker architecture that ensures an
organisation does not hard-wire its infrastructure into a single cloud
provider. This approach enables organisations to easily choose between cloud
service providers and manages the subtle differences between the various
providers, in terms of pricing, how an organisation connects to them and how
it manages the associated keys and so on.
And tokenization:
Many IT m... (more)
Rutrell Yasin at Government Computer News covers the new "Forrester WaveTM:
SOA Application Gateways, Q4 2011" report in his article on "what to look for
in a SOA App Gateway ". I'm pleased to say that Vordel is positioned as a
"Leader" in this Forrester report. What is a "Leader" in this context? Well,
Leaders were recognized for their "wide-ranging support for message formats
and protocols (including FTP) and strong content transformation features",
plus "attack protection and trust enablement security features". Forrester
recognized Vordel as a leader whose "… offering is stro... (more)
Looking up user information from an LDAP directory is a common usage of the
Vordel Gateway. Sometimes it's used for Message Enrichment in front of an
applications server. This saves the applications server developer the hassle
of looking up the attributes from the directory, since the attributes are
handed to them on a plate, in the message, by the Gateway. So here is a quick
tutorial on how to do this:
In the circuit you can see below, I am doing four things:
1) Authenticating the client against an LDAP directory (in this case
Microsoft Active Directory) using WS-Security Usernam... (more)
Mark O'Neill is Chief Technology Office of Vordel. Vordel connects applications to applications, businesses to other businesses, and SOA to Cloud Computing. A regular speaker at industry conferences and a contributor to SOA World Magazine and Cloud Computing Journal, Mark holds a degree in mathematics and psychology from Trinity College Dublin and graduate qualifications in neural network programming from Oxford University.
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