June 19, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cumulus Networks Launches – Aims to Reinvent the Networking World

By Ben Kepes

Startup Cumulus Networks is today launching its open source networking operating system and in doing so no doubt raises shivers across the traditional networking vendors. I alluded to what Cumulus is doing in a post a month or so ago where I wrote about the Open Compute Project and it’s

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June 19, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Thousand Eyes Launches Internet-Wide Performance Management Product

By Ben Kepes

We all now the drill. The rise of cloud application has meant that performance monitoring, formerly all about delivering metrics from one stack, has been blown apart and needs to become much more modular and distributed in nature. Companies like NewRelic and ExtraHop have arisen to deliver upon this new

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June 18, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

R&D With MapMyFitness – Bring on the Quantified Self!

By Ben Kepes

While attending South By Southwest in Texas recently, I took the opportunity to spend some time at MapMyFitness. MapMyFitness runs a number of different services which are all focused on allowing athletes and recreational fitness buffs to track the statistics around their fitness activities. I’ve used MapMyRun for a number

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June 17, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On PRISM, the Cloud and Granularity

By Ben Kepes

Since news of the US data interception program, PRISM, hit the world, there has been the expected firestorm of comments suggesting that this would be the death-knell of the cloud. It’s something of a tradition that whenever anything even remotely related to the internet occurs, open source zealots like Richard

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June 14, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Searching for the Ultimate Contact List Solution

By Ben Kepes

I get a lot of email – hundreds of emails a day. My contact list is a mess – many thousands of contacts, many with extremely out of date information and lots of duplication, format errors and the like. I’ve always been interested in cleaning up my contact list –

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June 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ODCA Forecast and Structure Panels Next Week

By Ben Kepes

Next week I’m heading to San Francisco for a few days to take part in a couple of events. Firstly I’ll e taking part again in the annual Forecast event run by the Open Data Center Alliance. Forecast was held in New York last year and managed to bring together

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June 12, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Core Business System Integration – Focus on UX, Not Data

By Ben Kepes

I was pinged the other day by Scribe (more about them here) – the company is delivering a new take on data integration, making it quicker and easier for non technical folks. Anyway, Scribe has just done a “State of Customer Data Integration” survey. These surveys can generally be taken

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June 11, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A New Approach Towards E-invoicing from Nipendo

By Ben Kepes

A few years ago I was an advise to BillFlo – a company that aimed to bring EDI kicking and screaming into the modern age. The premise behind BillFlo (later acquired by Taulia) was that organizations have a real need for a system that allows them to have a common

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June 10, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

On Cloud Brokers

By Ben Kepes

For a few years now the punditry has been discussing the need, or otherwise, of a financial intermediary layer that sits between cloud vendors and customers. Those who deny the validity of the space point to the fact that, since cloud vendors are in a direct service-provision relationship with the

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June 7, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloud Infrastructure – It’s All About Granularity

By Ben Kepes

A post from Barb Darrow over at GigaOm caught my eye this morning. In the post Barb suggests that we’ll see many more specific vertical clouds from AWS, akin to the GovCloud. As she wrote: Here’s one I think the company will pursue, if it’s not doing it already. In

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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