Monthly Archives: November 2011

November 30, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

By Ben Kepes

I’m sitting here at the CloudBeat event, a conference that I’ve had a deep involvement in with as co-content adviser along with my friend and colleague Paul Miller. Our focus for this event was to avoid the obvious vendor pitches and CloudWashing sessions and instead gather togteher some great customer

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November 29, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Puppet Labs Scores Series C

By Ben Kepes

In an indication of both the general frothiness of the investment space, and the excitement that investors have in cloud services, automation software vendor Puppet Labs is today announcing a $8.5M series C funding round which includes a strategic move by Cisco, Google and VMware. Puppet Labs has gained some

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November 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Data Center Complexity – and Clarity Around Outages

By Ben Kepes

Cloud outages get an inordinate amount of attention – it’s always interesting watching the tweet stream and feed reader after I hear the first inkling of a Cloud outage – all of a sudden my world is filled with people saying that this particular outage really marks the death-knell for

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November 23, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Small Teams, Big Impacts

By Ben Kepes

A favorite saying of someone I know in this industry is that “It’s not the big that eat the small, it’s the fast that eat the slow”. It’s a recurrent theme as terms like “pivot”, “lean”, “agile” and “minimum viable product” become the lingua franca of startups. We’ve moved rapidly

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November 23, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Closing the Door Before the Horse Bolts – On Passwords For Cloud

By Ben Kepes

The advent of the Internet (actually the advent of software used by the general populace) has create an entire new bunch of folks with ulcers caused by the worries around password management. Passwords it seem are both the bane of our existence and, apparently, the most important thing in our

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November 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

3Scale Takes APIs to the Edge

By Ben Kepes

There are a number of different players in the API enablement space but most of them agree on the fact that for content heavy APIs at least, there is a need to situate points of delivery as close as possible to the consumers of that content. I covered one vendors

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November 21, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS Accounting Roundup

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been travelling for the past couple of weeks and haven’t kept up to date with news from the SaaS accounting companies that I usually watch closely. Here’s a summary of stuff that’s happened of late. Quick general disclosure though, I have consulted to a number of the companies below

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November 18, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

EngineYard Adds Another Framework and Introduces Labs

By Ben Kepes

Quick post this morning to tell reader that EngineYard is rolling out yet another language/framework for its PaaS, this time Node.js. Alongside this fact (and we’ve all grown pretty well accustomed to PaaS players adding new languages and frameworks on a weekly basis, EngineYard is introducing a “labs” feature that

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November 18, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Wave Goes Payroll

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Wave Accounting, a vendor that is hoping to turn SMB accounting software on its head by delivering a product at a zero price point and monetizing through the smart utilization of aggregate data. The jury is out as to SMBs appetite for their data being used,

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November 17, 2011 Posted in Business Comments Off

iComplete–The World’s Simplest CRM?

By Ben Kepes

There’s been a lot of talk among a new breed of CRM providers recently about finding the right balance of functionality and complexity to meet the needs of very small businesses. While salesforce has cleaned up in the enterprise cloud CRM space, there’s no denying it’s product offering is both

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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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