Monthly Archives: June 2011

June 30, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

By Ben Kepes

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the judges in the Structure Launchpad gave Cloudability – and we both

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June 29, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloudera Goes Full Lifecycle Management for Hadoop

By Ben Kepes

Hadoop is gaining users as a way of running data-intensive distributed applications. I has been put to good use to help with the data issues faced by companies such as twitter, Facebook and eBay. Cloudera, one of the best known providers of Apache Hadoop-based software and services, is this morning

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June 27, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

.NET has Enterprise Cred–AppHarbor Banks on That With a PaaS

By Ben Kepes

In the race to build credibility with the development community, Ruby on Rails wins the battle to be cool hands down – look for a new web 2.0 application, or hunt down a quintessential garage-dwelling developer and it’s a safe bet they live in Ruby. That doesn’t change the fact

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June 27, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

SolidFire–Solid State Performance at Spinning Disk Pricing

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time last week talking with Dave Wright, CEO of SolidFire at the Structure conference. SolidFire was formed by the founders of JungleDisk after they’d served out their earn out time post the acquisition of JungleDisk by Rackspace. Based on the credibility and track record of the founders

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June 24, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

SOA Rolls out an API Management Solution

By Ben Kepes

It seems like every week I spend time talking to one or another of the many API management vendors that seem to be popping up with great regularity. In the last couple of months alone I’ve moderated a great focus.com roundtable that had me talking with Mike Maney from Alcatel

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June 23, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud and SMBs

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago Christina DesMarais from Inc magazine asked a question on focus.com about the best small business applications out there. I live SMB so this was a question right up my alley. It seemed worthwhile to recount my answer here; Hi Christina – you’re speaking my language. I

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June 22, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On Cloud Computing (and Other Things) Outside of he US

By Ben Kepes

Last week I took part in a planning call for a focus.com roundtable I’m taking part in soon that sees a discussion around the opportunities, barriers and issues or Cloud computing outside the US – be it US companies selling offshore, or non US companies looking to opportunities in their

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June 21, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreeAgent Bags Barclays Bank.

By Ben Kepes

One of the many SaaS Accounting vendors I keep an eye on is FreeAgent – a company I’ve written about many times in the past. FreeAgent are a UK based vendor that are, quite rightly, focusing on their home market rather than getting all starry eyed about opportunities over the

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June 20, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

This Bubble isn’t Evenly Distributed – billFLO Acquired by Taulia

By Ben Kepes

Buddy and CloudCamp founder Dave Nielsen tweeted something very profound yesterday regarding this bubble that even the VCs admit we’re in. As Dave said; Sure we may have crazy money being thrown around at ridiculous startups like Color, and crazy situations like those of the billion dollar valuation club but

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June 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Nimble Launches 2.0–Unifying Team Contacts, Communications and Collaboration

By Ben Kepes

Jon Ferrera, founder and CEO of Nimble, holds strong memories for me. You see it was Jon I was speaking to when the disastrous Christchurch earthquake struck on February 22nd this year – a story I’ve already recounted on this blog. Even before that day however, I’d been watching Jon’s

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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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