Monthly Archives: September 2011

September 30, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Bank Simple–Not Traditional Banking But Definitely Not Banking 2.0

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written in the past about Banking 2.0 – a concept that sees the flexibility and openness of web 2.0 bought that most staid of industries, banking. As I see it, like the web we now know, banking 2.0 would involve banks creating APIs that would allow (and yes, after

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September 29, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Dropping Costs While Still Providing Support–A SmartPayroll Case Study

By Ben Kepes

Over the past couple of years I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time with Asantha Wijeyratne, CEO of SmartPayroll, a New Zealand Payroll provider. I’ve been interested to talk to him, partly because he’s a lovely guy with an interesting business ethic, but also because his business is growing rapidly,

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September 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NZ Cloud Code of Practice

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just heard that a draft of the Terms of Reference for the New Zealand Cloud Code of Practice have been released – the document, for those interested, can be viewed here. The initiative is something I support and something I’ve kept a bit of a watching brief on –

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September 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

JRuby for Engine Yard Goes GA

By Ben Kepes

In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby language that Engine Yard initially

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September 27, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloupia and Cloud Management

By Ben Kepes

A few nights ago I was called by a London based investment house to talk about cloud management solutions and whether the space had potential. I have to admit my jaw dropped a little that any investment house specializing in technology companies would need to ask that question – all

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September 26, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Mu Brings Load Testing to Application Developer Workflow

By Ben Kepes

With the rise of PaaS as the one of the highest areas of innovation in the cloud, we’re seeing more and more point solutions being created for PaaS players. Case in point: blitz.io. Blitz is a product of application testing vendor Mu Dynamics and it combines Mu’s cloud-based application load

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September 23, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday OpenStack (disclosure, RackSpace, one of the originators of the OpenStack project, is sponsoring CloudU, an education program that I’m curating) rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed “Diablo”. Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally answering those who say it isn’t yet ready for real world

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September 22, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Salesforce Acquires Assistly… Anyone Else See a Disconnect?

By Ben Kepes

News that salesforce has acquired service desk vendor Assistly in a move that many of us had an inkling about well before DreamForce – it seems that dotting the I’s and crossing the t’s of the deal saw it closing after the event. Assistly is a young company that is

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September 21, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Okta and Cloud Sherpas Partner to Accelerate GAPE Enterprise Adoption

By Ben Kepes

Identity management is one of the big challenges to be faced in easing the adoption of cloud within enterprise. Okta (more on them here) and Cloud Sherpas (more on them here) have announced a partnership that is squarely aimed at easing the barriers of entry into enterprise for Google Apps.

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September 21, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimsoft Monitors SAP Environments

By Ben Kepes

Nimsoft, the company that provides IT management as a service (more on them here) today rolled out monitoring for a range of SAP products and services. The aim here is for Nimsoft Monitor to become the default monitoring service across all the products and services an enterprise uses – the

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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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