In today’s fast-paced tech environment, integrating new solutions swiftly and efficiently can make all the difference in maintaining your competitive advantage. A REST API is one such solution that has the potential to accelerate innovation and optimize efficiency by bridging the gap between existing systems and new platforms. At our Platform 2024 event in Las Vegas, Scale Computing’s VP of International Sales, Scott Mann led the “Expanding Innovation: Maximizing Business Offerings With REST APIs” panel, showcasing how REST APIs can transform the way companies manage and deploy a variety of solutions.
REST APIs provide a standardized way to allow software applications to communicate with one another. They are particularly powerful because they enable different services to work together seamlessly, regardless of the underlying technology. This interconnectivity has become increasingly critical in today’s heterogeneous IT environments, where businesses often need to integrate multiple third-party applications, platforms, and systems.
In addition to Scott, the panel featured Andy Brauer, CTO at EnchaCloud, a leading cloud service provider based in Pretoria, South Africa, as well as Ian Smith, Technical and Alliances Director for EMEA at Scale Computing who also introduced UPONSCALE a self-service cloud platform developed by 365IT, a leading IT solutions provider in France.
Ian explains how the UPONSCALE platform was built on top of the SC//Platform to underpin their own MSP offering and how they leverage REST APIs to provide users with greater control and flexibility over their virtual environments, helping them to tailor their environments to meet the specific needs of their customers, including:
- Multi-Tenancy: Users can manage multiple tenants in isolated environments, ensuring data security and customized configurations for each client.
- Self-Service Portal: The platform allows customers to create and manage their own VMs, set up networks, and even control backup and disaster recovery processes.
- Built-In Container Management: Utilizing REST APIs, the platform also integrates container orchestration, allowing businesses to deploy and seamlessly manage Docker containers.
Andy from EnchaCloud also shared insights into “Nav Engine,” a cloud marketplace platform that was designed to meet the needs of SMEs seeking a reliable and customizable cloud solution. Nav Engine was also built atop the SC//Platform and utilizes REST APIs to deliver a user-friendly, self-service experience.
Andy goes on to detail how automated provisioning via REST APIs has enabled users of the Nav Engine platform to quickly spin up new products, deploy new VMs, or configure a complex network in a more streamlined and efficient manner. As he noted during the discussion, “everything that we've done, we've done via APIs and we've abstracted the layers of administration and the end user portal so that it makes everything easy to use and fully secured.”
Andy further explains how using REST APIs in the Scale Computing Platform enabled Nav Engine to offer a range of new services including white-label options so their customers could customize their cloud services under their own brand as well as the ability to extend their platform to new geographies.
But perhaps the most salient takeaway from both Ian and Andy’s presentations was the importance of listening to customer needs and continuously innovating to meet those demands. By using REST APIs in conjunction with the SC//Platform, both UPONSCALE and Nav Engine have been able to quickly adapt to changing market conditions so they could deliver more robust, flexible, and user-friendly solutions.
You can watch the entire video on our YouTube channel. To learn more about integrating REST API with Scale Computing Platform to maximize your business offerings, reach out to us at channel@scalecomputing.com.
