Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Applications

Security around public cloud offerings has always been a major point of concern (and controversy) for users. How do cloud providers protect customer data? How is log data protected? How is the surrounding infrastructure secured? We previous talked about how iON stays up and running even through EC2 outages. Today, we will talk about iON […]

Mule Studio Beta Milestone 5 Released!

We are pleased to announce the Beta Milestone 5 release of Mule Studio, the graphical design tool for Mule ESB. At its core, it is based on the Eclipse Development Platform which many developers are already familiar with. But we have added significant functionality to it to achieve a very tight integration to Mule ESB. This makes Mule […]

Give your application a voice of its own with Twilio

The last time we talked I show you how you can easily build RESTful APIs on top of iON.  I just covered just a very narrow scenario, the sky is the limit when talking about the kind of integrations that you can build using iON. So this week I’m going to walk you through another interesting use […]

Integration Matters at PeopleMatter

We have been seeing incredible early success with our iON integration platform as a service (iPaaS). We have talked with over a hundred SaaS providers over the past couple of months, and overwhelmingly, we are hearing that integration is a major challenge for them as they go to market. Time and time again, these SaaS […]

See Mule iON in action at the TwilioCon Hackathon

Come see Mule iON in action at the TwilioCon hackathon Wednesday Sept 21st. Better yet, come build cool apps and win some awesome prizes. Win a super cool Mule t-shirt by leveraging the Mule iON platform to build your hackathon demo. The winning Mule iON entry will receive the perfect accessory for showcasing your Twilio demo: a Jawbone Jambox! […]

Mule iON Architecture Series: The Technology

Building a highly available and fault tolerant cloud platform comes with its share of challenges. What happens when components fail? What happens when the cloud itself experiences downtime?  How is it possible to ensure customer apps are always available and their log data is never lost? These are some of the very questions we ask […]

Choosing the right integration and ESB platform

This is my final post in a series of to ESB or not to ESB articles where I have attempted to shed some light on what an ESB really is and show some alternative architectures for performing integration.  I’ve given an overview of four main architectures that I saw most often and provided some context […]

ESB and Hub n’ Spoke Architectures – ESB or not to ESB revisited Part 2

In my last post, ESB or not to ESB revisited – Part 1, I put some definition around what an ESB really is, today I’m going to describe two integration architectures, ESB and Hub and Spoke, providing the benefits and considerations for each. Previous Posts: ESB or not to ESB – original post ESB or […]

Integration is the biggest challenge in the cloud

When people ask  “what are your biggest concerns about cloud” you may think security, lack of standardization or reliability, but the real challenge is the same challenge that has challenged every enterprise; how do I get my applications to talk to each other and how to I respond to changes in my business? The fact […]

Mule iON: Integrating SaaS Applications with On-premise Data using the Secure Data Gateway

Integrating SaaS or Cloud applications with on-premise databases may seem straight forward enough at first pass but can be challenging if you don’t have the right approach. Cloud applications like Salesforce.com provide APIs that can easily be used to integrate with your on-premise applications or databases. For example, using MuleSoft’s Salesforce.com Cloud Connector, developers can […]