Monthly Archives: October 2011

October 31, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Something is Beautiful in the Heart of Christchurch

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a fair amount of time eviscerating the response to the Christchurch earthquakes from he Council, CERA and Civil Defence. Some might think that my outlook is purely negative. I wanted to redress this balance by posting about my visit to the ReStart project today. For those unaware, the

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October 31, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SolidFire Picks up $25M Funding Round

By Ben Kepes

Big news in the solid state drive world today sees SolidFire announcing a USD25M funding round. I’ve written about SolidFire previously and took the opportunity at Structure earlier this year to spend time talking to their founder and CEO, Dave Wright (see below). SolidFire is a company that aims to

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October 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Flawed Analysis–On Clouds “Playing Nice”

By Ben Kepes

The other day someone alerted me to a new report put out by IT news that lauds itself as a “technical study of the integration and extension options offered by the largest 20 software-as-a-service vendors serving the Australian enterprise.” The report looks at a few different dimensions including; Can I

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October 27, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

By Ben Kepes

The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the same from every other PaaS

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October 26, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written

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October 25, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Servicemesh goes 7.3

By Ben Kepes

ServiceMesh is today announcing the release of the latest version of its cloud governance and management offering. The new release, dubbed Agility Platform 7.3, looks to build out the SLA and reporting aspects of hybrid cloud management – two areas that are of growing importance as organizations attempt to balance

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October 25, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Uptime Offers Monitoring and Capacity Planning for VMware

By Ben Kepes

As we move into a world where organizations make more and more usage of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, providers that offer those same organizations tools to ensure the performance of those resources will become more and more important. Into that role steps uptime software, an existing player in the IT systems

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October 24, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Shows its Hand–Enterprise Software Gets a Whole Lot More Interesting and NetSuite in his Sights

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago when the war of words between oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff went down, many of us characterized the battle as the tired old vendors versus the new upstarts. Commentators got tunnel vision parsing the events as a kind of binary example

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October 24, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Buys RightNow–MyPOV

By Ben Kepes

Last month it was Salesforce buying customer support solution Assistly. This month it’s Oracle buying RightNow, a more mature, but similarly positioned player. The deal, worth around the $1.5B mark, fills the void that Oracle had in terms of customer-facing engagement tools. While Oracle does have CRM on-demand, this acquisition

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October 24, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Paying It Forward–On Connecting

By Ben Kepes

In my work I meet with hundreds of people from different parts of the technology world. I talk with marketing, PR and AR folks a lot, and I also spend a bunch of time talking with operations and technology folks. My LinkedIn connection list (not that I’d ever give quantity

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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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