Monthly Archives: February 2011

February 28, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On Traditional Conferences

By Ben Kepes

Why do they still exist? The other day I received a call from someone looking to put on a Cloud Computing conference in New Zealand. Now it’s important, for context’s sake, to know that I’ve run around 10 CloudCamps in New Zealand, all around the country. I’ve blogged on New

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February 25, 2011 Posted in Business 11 Comments

Normal Service Will Soon Resume–My #EQNZ Experience

By Ben Kepes

I’m writing this post while flying from Sydney, Australia back home to New Zealand. Having spent 36 hours or so in Sydney has allowed me to step back from this crazy week and (to a certain extent at least) get my head back in order. For those who haven’t caught

February 21, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Quality of Service for Cloud–And Playing Good Cop

By Ben Kepes

After the recent public release of SpotCloud, I wrote a fairly bullish article commenting on what I saw was a necessary part of the move of computing to a utility. As I said in the article; Part of the flip side of computing becoming a true utility service is that

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February 18, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Service-now Goes Social

By Ben Kepes

Service-now is just announcing their Winter 2011 release and, true to the trend du jour, their ITSM offering is chock full of social features. I’ve written about Service-now, a SaaS for enterprise IT management vendor, previously. With this release, they’re trying to jump on a bandwagon given that ultimate of

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February 17, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud ERP for Manufacturing

By Ben Kepes

Derek Singleton of Software Advice has attempted to give some guidance to manufacturing organizations looking o roll our a SaaS product. In his post, he assesses the following vendors; Epicor Infor NetSuite Plex SAP BusinessByDesign In making his assessment, Singleton uses several different metrics; Business size product is suitable for Manufacturing modes

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February 16, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Social Accounting

By Ben Kepes

At the recent Xero Partner Conference held in New Zealand, Xero bought US based CPA, Jason Blumer to present to Australasian accountants about his view of the future of accounting practices.While he was here, and beyond the obligatory bungee jump, Blumer made a video (embedded below) discussing what he sees

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February 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud Standards–The Great Debate

By Ben Kepes

Over on ComputerWorld, Justin Pirie from Mimecast, wrote an impassioned plea calling for the acceleration of the creation of cloud standards. He argues that with rapidly increasing levels of cloud adoption, an effective set of industry standards is becoming ever more pressing. Pirie points out the following issues caused by

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February 14, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

SpotCloud Launches–A True Utility Model Cometh

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long said that Cloud Computing will see us enter a paradigm where computing is considered a utility – much like water and electricity. If you accept this contention, then there is one reasonably glaring lack in he ecosystem,especially for large utilities who sell their service at an incremental rate.

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February 11, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

MemBase and CouchOne and What it Means for Cloud Sartups

By Ben Kepes

Focus.com Cloud RoundtableLast week marked the merger between Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne, associated companies producing NoSQL products. It’s a logical combination as it creates an end-to-end NoSQL solution. But more than that it’s an indication of something I’ve been noticing at the lower end of the Cloud Computing stack.

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February 10, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Salesforce, Seesmic and ManyMoon–Good Move or Kool Aide Consumption?

By Ben Kepes

A few days ago salesforce.com announced that it had acquired  social productivity application ManyMoon. Surprisingly the blogosphere remained relatively silent about the deal beyond a post by Klint who referenced Sameer Patel saying; With its strong project facilitation focus, Manymoon brings solid complementary ‘get-it-done’ functionality to a general purpose engagement

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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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