A recent report, conducted by Utah State University and sponsored by Puppet Labs, revealed that DevOps practices can boost IT performance and ultimately improve a business’s bottom line. High IT performance correlates with DevOps practices like proactive monitoring and continuous delivery and integration.  Similarly, the ability to create and implement a successful API strategy has become a critical competency for modern IT teams.  According to MuleSoft’s 2017 Connectivity Benchmark Report, 94% of IT leaders confirm they can deliver products and services to market faster with APIs.

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This webinar is now available to watch on-demand.

Last week, Gartner published its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management, which covers “the planning, design, implementation, publication, operation, consumption, maintenance and retirement of APIs.”  Proudly, MuleSoft is in the Leaders quadrant for the second year in a row.  In the report, Gartner lists the following as one of MuleSoft’s strengths:

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With Anypoint Runtime Manager 2.0, launching early next month, MuleSoft customers can monitor, troubleshoot, analyze and manage applications and APIs securely deployed in a public or private cloud or on-premises, in a sandbox, staging or production environment from a single pane of glass.

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Learn how to align security and agility

In some organizations, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has earned a reputation inside of IT as a blocker or a hindrance to innovation.  Some CISOs have even be referred to as the ‘Queen (or King) of No.’  Why?  Because despite the massive amounts of attention being paid to security in the media, with Target, Apple, Nissan, and Twitter all making the news recently for their security failures, security is still considered an afterthought in most IT projects.  As a result, by the time security professionals get involved in project delivery, they have no choice but to flag security gaps that often require impractical redesign — resulting in project delays at best and cancellation at worst.

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We recently released a broad set of enhancements across Anypoint Management Center, the unified suite of management capabilities users of Anypoint Platform access to administer all aspects of Anypoint Platform on-prem and in the cloud. Across API Manager, Runtime Manager, and Access Management we’ve made extensive visual and functional upgrades to improve user experience from adjusting icons fonts and colors to optimizing workflow patterns and improving audit logging.

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Messaging is used to help organizations provide reliable, zero message loss environments, to decouple applications, enable scale, and to unlock data for broader distribution.  It’s a critical pattern for most enterprise architectures.  In healthcare, for example, a messaging pattern might be used to create a buffer between the electronic medical records system and any number of consuming applications who need to know when a patient record has been updated.  Or in retail, a messaging pattern might be used to ensure a customer can have a seamless experience as they modify their shopping cart across, in-store, web, and mobile channels.  

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This week we’ve released a number of updates to Anypoint Platform, including new versions of API Manager, Anypoint Analytics, Anypoint API Gateway, Anypoint MQ and Anypoint Partner Manager. These updates provide improved usability for Anypoint Platform admins and owners.

API Manager 1.8.0

This release delivers a new admin user experience and improves policy management for API administrators with the following features:

API Administration

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The importance of security

In April 2013, hackers hijacked the Associated Press’ Twitter account to post one fake tweet about two bombs exploding at the White House and the President being injured. As a result, the stock market went into a 143-point free-fall before the hoax was exposed and Dow Jones Industrial Index recovered. The entire episode may have only lasted 3 minutes, but thanks to programmed trading, billions of dollars can be made or lost in milliseconds. Unfortunately, there’s no way to know for sure how much real damage was done during this episode since the Dow’s recovery didn’t necessarily unwind the losses many incurred when that hoax erased more than $136 billion in market value.

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When deployed as an API Gateway and managed with API Manager, the highly performant Anypoint Platform enables you to control which traffic is authorized to pass through your APIs to various backend services, meter the traffic flowing through your API, log transactions, and apply runtime policies.

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Today, the Mule 3.7 runtime and Anypoint Studio June 2015 are now GA. This release brings to a close over two months of product announcements impacting nearly every aspect of Anypoint Platform. It also marks the beginning of a new way for our user community to experience our products — less as a collection of rich independent capabilities and more a unified platform with unified tooling and unified management to help users deliver value with speed, scale, and control.

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