Hosted Management for Cloud APIs

When moving Web services and APIs into a public infrastructure cloud, there is a new layer of management issues:

• Are cloud-based services available to external consumers?
• Do you know where all traffic in and out of services is originating?
• Can you control access to cloud services?
• Is the communication between consumers and services secure?
• Are you able to audit traffic for compliance?
• Can you define and manage SLAs?

CloudGate: Management, Visibility and Control for APIs and services in Infrastructure Clouds

You want the whole world to see and use your services, but still need to secure, meter, govern, and monitor them. CloudGate is a cloud services management solution that gives end-to-end control of web-based services deployed in public cloud infrastructures including:

• Visibility and Compliance: Audit all traffic with complete visibility into real consumer communication with services
• Availability: Ensure that services in the cloud are available to external consumers OR Monitor services availability from the cloud to external consumers
• Security: Enforce security policies and prevent unauthorized access
• Brokering: Route traffic depending on time of day, amount of traffic, and content.

Self-Service, Saas-Based API Management

CloudGate is a fully hosted solution that allows you to buy Cloud Services Governance the same way you buy your cloud-based infrastructure – the no hassle way. With CloudGate there is no management server to install and no infrastructure to support. You pay for just what you use and turn it off whenever you’re done.

CloudGate is a self-service application or optionally managed service that gives you complete control of your API management activities. CloudGate can be used for all stages of the API and service lifecycle. CloudGate evolves with your business model, so as consumer usage of your API’s grow CloudGate can easily expand with it.

Powered by JaxView

CloudGate leverages technology from leading SOA Management product, JaxView, and applies it to the special needs of applications running in public infrastructure clouds. Cloudgate offers the same benefits as JaxView with a gateway deployment, purchased as a SaaS application.

Key CloudGate Capabilities:

• Externalize enforcement of policies to a gateway
• Create a set of policy enforcement profiles based on consumer usage
• Provide visibility into real consumer communication with services and APIs
• Create and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs) based on performance, availability, usage, and compliance
• Throttle API traffic based on time of day and SLAs
• Enforce performance and availability of SLAs
• Secure services using encryption, digital signatures, authorization, and authentication
• Integrate with external Identity Management systems
• Check availability of services using active (synthetic) monitoring
• Audit all message communication for compliance purposes
• Apply protocol conversion and schema modification to your communication such as REST <->SOAP, JSON <-> SOAP, etc.
• Understand how consumers use your API’s and services in the public cloud
• And much more…