Monthly Archives: August 2011

August 31, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Salesforce Launches Data.com – Saves D&B to Fight Another Day

By Ben Kepes

When salesforce acquired Jigsaw a year and a half ago, I said at the time that it as the beginning of the end for traditional data service providers like D&B and Hoover’s. I foresaw a situation where, unless they partnered with the new paradigm of providing business data to organizations,

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August 30, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

The Perception Risks of Multi Language PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Over the past year or so I’ve become more excited about PaaS and what it means for the future of technology. In my mind, it seems that teo things are going on in the cloud stack. At the lower levels of the stack, IaaS is becoming commoditized and rapidly entering

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August 29, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VMware Places a Bet on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

By Ben Kepes

This morning at VMworld, VMware is announcing a number of things which together show they’re making a big bet on enterprises looking to hybrid cloud as their way of moving from a pure on-premise approach towards infrastructure. The announcements take the form of both partnerships and technologies to enable those

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August 26, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Focus, Focus, Focus

By Ben Kepes

First published on the Rackspace blog. I’ve been reading a copy of Do More Faster recently. Do More Faster is a kind of an entrepreneurs guide book written by two well known authors; Brad Feld, founder and investor of the Foundry and co-founder of the TechStars startup accelerator and David Cohen, co-founder and CEO of TechStars.

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August 25, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Active Directory Integration for Cloud SSO. Okta Latest to Integrate

By Ben Kepes

Okta (previous coverage here) is today joining other cloud-based SSO offerings and releasing an edition designed to integrate single sign on into Active Directory to bridge the authentication gap between on-premise and cloud software. The move is a tacit admission of the fact that, for better or worse, most enterprises

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August 24, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudFoundry Launches Micro Cloud–’Cos it’s All About Local

By Ben Kepes

VMware is this morning announcing the general release of Micro CloudFoundry, a downloadable and installable PaaS that can be run on any PC or Mac. Micro CloudFoundry is essentially a local emulation of the cloud based CloudFoundry product – it allows developers to create and test software on their own

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August 23, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

PipeJump from Future Simple–Another Small Biz CRM

By Ben Kepes

Small businesses, formerly unable to enjoy the real benefits that CRM offers, are seemingly now spoilt for choice – there seem to be dozens of companies offering lightweight CRM specifically for SMBs – offerings from Zoho, CapsuleCRM are but a few of the multitude of offerings that exist. Today it’s

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August 23, 2011 Posted in National Institute of Standards and Technology, New Zealand 1 Comment

On Definitions – Keeping it Simple with OSSM

By Ben Kepes
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August 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Scheduling Briefings at DreamForce

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me in San Francisco at salesforce’s DreamForce event. It’s always a crazy few days and judging by the quantity of briefing requests I’ve already received this year will be no exception. At this stage I have some spare tome on Tuesday afternoon and a little on Wednesday/Thursday.

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August 22, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Dreamforce 2011–A Look Ahead, and a Review of Last Year’s Predictions

By Ben Kepes

Last year was the first time I attended salesforce’s DreamForce global conference (at least in person). DreamForce is a pretty intense event – tens of thousands of people, the entire Moscone center and most hotels and hospitality establishments in the vicinity are fully booked to cater for the multitude of

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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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