Monthly Archives: December 2011

December 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Have a Happy, and Cloudy, New Year from CloudU

By Ben Kepes

Over twelve months ago I came up with the crazy sounding idea of a vendor neutral education program that would see Mom and Pop businesses (along with regular IT folks) gain a resource with which they could build their knowledge of Cloud Computing. Luckily there were some incredibly progressive folks

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December 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Don’t Wait for the Pros, Experiment!

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report we talked about the fact that a lack of formal Cloud Computing qualifications is something of a barrier to organizations adopting the Cloud. It’s something we’re trying, in some small way, to address with the CloudU certificate, but nonetheless the fact remains that when it

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December 21, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Finding Relevance in a Commoditized World, APIs and Infrastructure

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago I moderated a session at Defrag. As part of the session Sam Ramji from Apigee presented. The session got a little sideways due in part to some frayed nerves from a hectic travel schedule for a bunch of people and in part to a misunderstanding around

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December 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating. In the report we advised organizations to look at applications that; • Have significant interaction with external applications or services • Are

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December 19, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Considerations–A Need for Clarity

By Ben Kepes

As I travel around talking to organizations and the decision makers within them about Cloud Computing, I find myself enumerating a list of benefits that many of us believe come with Cloud Computing. The list includes scalability, economic benefits, the ability to focus on core business, etc. I must have

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December 17, 2011 Posted in Business 8 Comments

New Zealand – Celebrate the Organic Growth Businesses!

By Ben Kepes

Over on his blog TradeMe alumnus Rowan Simpson has recently been giving some New Zealand startups the opportunity to tell their stories – it’s a great series that is well worth reading and it includes some posts by companies whose founders are friends of mine including Ponoko, Vend, MinuteDock, Polar

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December 16, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Application Integration in the Wild–Can Discrete Apps Work for SRP?

By Ben Kepes

Last week I posted news of Intacct’s new SRP offering that ties together Clarizen, Salesforce and Intacct’s own system. It was timely given that only the week before I moderated a panel at CloudBeat that brought together a bunch of folks who think deeply about the application integration space –

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December 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Okta Focuses on Application Discovery and Self-Service

By Ben Kepes

Okta (more coverage here) is this morning announcing a new self-service capability built upon its own Okta Application Network,a pre-integrated package of multiple business and consumer applications in one hit. The idea here is that enterprise IT organizations will be able to publish their own custom application catalog and then

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December 14, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ControlMyCloud Goes Beta

By Ben Kepes

One of the concerns that many people have when considering a move to the cloud is that of granular control. The last thing an organization wants is to open the flood gates to uncontrolled performance, cost or poor efficiency. Sensible Cloud is trying to deliver on these concerns and is

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December 13, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BMC Helping with the Cloud Transition

By Ben Kepes

While many commentators would say that traditional organizations (both vendor and end user) are not making the move to the cloud because of issues around lethargy, inertia, risk-aversion and being process bound, the fact is that despite large organizations having significant resource to put into IT, sometimes they’re just so

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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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