May 20, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part Two

By Ben Kepes

Part two of my post-SuiteWorld reflections I attended NetSuite‘s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to attend) and it has been interesting to reflect on a company that is unabashedly growing up. Having been at all of the previous global NetSuite events, it was impressive

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May 17, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part One

By Ben Kepes

My post-event thoughts from SuiteWorld are just too weighty for one post hence I’ll break up my analysis into two posts and give folks a chance to digest them over time. Here follows part one. I attended NetSuite’s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to

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May 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

By Ben Kepes

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple disparate systems and bring sense to them. Business Intelligence is one

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May 16, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Enterprise Development and Testing Agility with CloudShare

By Ben Kepes

One of the big value propositions for cloud infrastructure is that in greatly reduces the hurdles that developers face when setting up environments for development and testing purposes. There are two issues that often get in the way of this process – the demand for limited physical resources, and the

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May 15, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Operations is Dead, but Please Don’t Replace it with DevOps

By Ben Kepes

OK, so the title is provocative, but bear with me here. Recently I spent a mind-expanding day at DevOpsCon in Israel – I presented the first keynote, which aimed to set the scene for why DevOps is a necessary reaction to some broad organizational and technological changes. What was really

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May 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Business Value of Private PaaS

By Ben Kepes

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of being involved with the second DeployCon event. DeployCon is an event that explores Platform as a Service and its place in the technology landscape going forwards. As part of the event I had the pleasure of moderating a panel which

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May 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Updates its Cloud Management Software

By Ben Kepes

Just in case anyone didn’t realize it – the future of IT is one where organizations use a wide variety of different solutions – public and private, and spanning different operating systems and application stacks to deliver the individual requirements of end users. The acquisition last week of Enstratius by

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May 10, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Location Based Services Not Just for Consumers – Location as an IT Service Desk Enabler

By Ben Kepes

At Interop this week I sat in a keynote where a Cisco executive explained how their location based technologies are enabling the MGM Grand resort in Las Vegas to have deeply contextualized and personalized interactions with guests in the resort. That got me thinking about location within an enterprise and,

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May 9, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Facebook and the OCP Signal a Big Problem for Traditional Networking Vendors

By Ben Kepes

One of the more interesting keynotes at Interop cam from Frank Frankovsky, the guy who is not only in charge of Facebook‘s infrastructure, but also heads up the Open Compute Project, an initiative that was originally started by Facebook but now has real cross-party steam behind it. The Open Compute

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May 8, 2013 Posted in Business 5 Comments

New Zealand Defies International Pressure and Makes Software Non-Patentable

By Ben Kepes

I’m immensely proud to be a New Zealand. Despite being a tiny country at the end of the earth we have historically shown the fortitude to make the big calls before others were willing to do so. The first country in the world to offer women the vote and the

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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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