Monthly Archives: July 2011

July 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Aria Scoops a Tier1 Telco Customer

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a couple of years closely following the subscription and billing space – particularly the SaaS startups that are hoping to be the face of the next generation of technology. Historically of course, billing has been dominated by two particular approaches. The first is home baked solutions that large

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July 19, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Greenbutton Nabs Microsoft, Swiftpoint Nabs Costco

By Ben Kepes

I always like to be able to write about the successes of businesses down in my neck of the woods and today I’ve got a couple of stories to write about. Firstly GreenButton, the company that I’ve called “the perfect cloud case study” nabbed USD1M in funding from non other

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July 18, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Where the Rubber Meets the Road–Running a Business in the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

A recurring theme of mine is that Cloud Computing constitutes an opportunity for small and medium businesses to “punch above their weight”. For a multitude of reasons that we’ve been articulating over the past six months or so with the CloudU series, Cloud Computing is a paradigm shift that gives

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July 15, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On Disaster Recovery for SMBs

By Ben Kepes

This has been a big year for disasters in my neck of the woods. From floods and fires in Australia to ongoing Earthquakes in Canterbury – business have had their continuity approaches tested and retested to the limit. One of the most important continuity aspects is disaster recovery. Acronis, a

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July 13, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Doing Well by Doing Good–Booster Seat 2011 to Give Kiwi StartUp a Taste of The Valley

By Ben Kepes

It’s always nice to see people who have had a successful exit from their business do good things for the community. I covered the story recently of the sale of Kiwi LMS provider Litmos to Callidus. I’ve always been really impressed by Litmos founders Nicole Fougere and Rich Chetwynd –

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July 13, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Scale – It’s What Lets Minnows Become Monsters

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted on the Rackspace blog. A few weeks ago I was in San Francisco attending NetSuite’s SuiteWorld conference. It was a great event – lots of user stories, lots of exciting applications on show that were built on top of the NetSuite platform and generally a bit of buzz

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July 12, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Ruby Creator Yukihiro Matsumoto Joins Heroku

By Ben Kepes

In another piece of big news today, salesforce is announcing that Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, is joining Heroku in the newly created role of Chief Architect of Ruby. A self-taught computer programmer, Yukihiro Matsumoto or “Matz,” as he is known in the community, graduated with a degree in

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July 12, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Citrix Acquires Cloud.com

By Ben Kepes

Massive news this morning for anyone even remotely interested in what’s happening in the cloud is the fact that Citrix has completed an acquisition of Cloud.com, the open source cloud computing platform vendor who was in the news just a week ago announcing the hiring of cloud luminary Christian Reilly

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July 11, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

KashFlow Puts Its Funding to Good Use–New Engineering Project and New COO

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday the news broke that KashFlow has allegedly raised funding of £4 million from its existing 40% shareholder, Lord Young. It’s an interesting funding position – while we don’t know any details about how it is structured – it’s a significant amount of money and will allow KashFlow to scale

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July 11, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimsoft Broadens Monitoring Solution to Include Cisco UCS

By Ben Kepes

Nimsoft (previous coverage here) is today announcing that it’s monitoring solution now includes coverage and capabilities for Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS). For those who need a reminder, Nimsoft Monitor allows for monitoring of all manner of infrastructure elements – servers, storage, network and security – spread between public and

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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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