Monthly Archives: September 2010

September 23, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Media World is Changing – TechCrunch Shows Why with #Angelgate

By Ben Kepes

So despite not wanting to look like I’m sucking up to new media moguls – I wanted to write about changes that are creating seismic changes in journalism. Michael Arrington, founder of blog TechCrunch leads an truly bizarre life with almost zero work/life balance. But look at the stuff it

September 23, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Once the BitchSlapping is Over – On Oracle and Salesforce

By Ben Kepes

Oracle Open World was a depressingly staid affair (or so it seemed from distance) with the one exception being the schoolyard antics of Larry Ellison and salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. For those who missed it (and how could you?) some historical back and forth is in the video below. Call

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September 23, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Appirio Helps to Lower the Noise

By Ben Kepes

Appirio is a great company – they’re a perfect example of how channel partners an survive in a cloudy world. The do exactly what I believe all ISVs will have to do in the years ahead – create vertical offerings that tie together several cloud solutions and sell this on

September 23, 2010 Posted in Business 10 Comments

On Keeping Up – Box.net and Dropbox and the New Arms Race

By Ben Kepes

Watching competing technology companies and their product developments is sometimes like watching the arms race of the later part of last century. Despite having enough fire power to split our planet in two, The US and the USSR would compete to develop ever more powerful nukes, with no real expectation

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September 22, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Dave Dobbyn and When is a Church Not a Church

By Ben Kepes

I’m a bit of a fan of 80’s Kiwi music so for my wife’s birthday this year I got us all tickets to Dave Dobbyn’s Acoustic Church Gig here in Christchurch. Dobbyn is doing two gigs down here, I chose the Christchurch Cathedral as the venue of choice. All went

September 22, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Organization of the Future – What Will it Look Like?

By Ben Kepes

We hear plenty these days about the dawning age of Generation Y, that generation that has grown up knowing nothing but the availability of social networking, online gaming, ubiquitous computing and the incredible freedom of choice and information that …

September 22, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud2, Chatter2, I’m Kind of Over Anything2

By Ben Kepes

After Larry Ellison’s dismissal of salesforce.com as the wrong sort of cloud at Oracle’s open world conference this week, it’s sure going to be interesting to hear what salesforce CEO Marc Benioff talks about when he takes the stage at the event along with Michael Dell. For those who didn’t

September 21, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

False Advertising from Torpedo7?

By Ben Kepes

I subscribe to 1day – a great source for bargains (and sometime the place to go for junk). In between earthquake related emails today I got a note from 1day with todays offers. Included was an office chair, look at the email below: Despite not actually having an office right

September 21, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ShareFile – All Things to All People

By Ben Kepes

Founded nearly five years ago, ShareFile is (yet another) service that offers SMBs the ability to share files across a business and outside of he business. ShareFile’s genesis came while seeing the number of businesses using FTP as a sharing method, despite the unfriendliness and constraints of FTP servers. ShareFile

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September 20, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cirtas and Amazon bet on a Cloud Appliance for the Enterprise

By Ben Kepes

Cirtas, the San Jose based storage company, today announced the general availability of its BlueJet Cloud Storage Controller, an appliance aimed at solving some of the barriers to enterprises adopting cloud storage. As a vote of confidence in the approach, Cirtas announced today that it has secured $10 mill in

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.