Monthly Archives: February 2012

February 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Brightpearl Delivers in a Multi Channel World

By Ben Kepes

Nearly three years ago in a fit of frustration I wrote a post detailing what I considered to be a relatively obvious set of requirements for a small manufacturing business I am a shareholder in. To recap – we currently use a bunch of disconnected systems because there is no

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February 27, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Zynga and Z-Cloud–A Corollary to the Public Cloud

By Ben Kepes

At the Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara recently, Allan Leinwand, CTO from  Zynga presented a keynote the day after a fairly emphatic statement contained in their earnings call that speaks to their marked retreat from the public cloud. In the space of 12 months Zynga has gone from 80%

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February 23, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Developer Operations in a Cloudy World

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU.  How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find.  If that’s your cup of tea,

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February 22, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Amazon Goes PaaS–Game On. Let’s See How the Competition Respond.

By Ben Kepes

A week or two ago I had a heated argument on Twitter with someone who was adamant that Amazon would remain an infrastructure player and avoid the temptation to move up the stack. Even after the release of DynamoDB, we weren’t entirely sure as to their intentions. That kind of

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February 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Huddle Ups the Ante with Intelligent File Synchronization

By Ben Kepes

Content collaboration is an area of rapid development and organizations seek to manage the complexities of agile project approaches, distributed teams, a deluge of information and ever increasing complexity. One of the key drivers and challenges of this is the move to a more mobile work force with employees needing

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February 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

It’s All About Sharing–Xero Delivers A Community Hub

By Ben Kepes

One of the things I’ve learned over the nearly 20 years that I’ve been in business is just how valuable the peer network is to businesses. This understanding was part of the rationale for introducing the CloudU program and in particular the LinkedIn community – it’s a chance for people

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February 17, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Open, Closed, 1984 and the Evil Empire

By Ben Kepes

On my recent Gillmor gang slot I spent time talking with Steve Gillmor and John Taschek about open data, the risks of a few all-powerful social networks and how open data can drive potential benefits for all. In what was I suspect an effort to create a provocateur outside of

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February 15, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Cloud is Simple. Well, It’s Real Complex but that Complexity Can, and Should, be Hidden from Users.

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU.  How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find.  If that’s your cup of tea,

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February 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

WorldDesk and DropBox Make a Truly Virtual Desktop

By Ben Kepes

A few days ago a little battle raged around what the launch of Google’s GDrive product might mean for DropBox. At the time fellow Cloud watcher Alex Williams commented that DropBox has a lot of magic that would save its day – I wasn’t so sure but it’s nonetheless interesting

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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OneBill Launches (Another) Subscription Commerce Platform

By Ben Kepes

Just when the world thought it was well provided for subscription commerce toolsets, OneBill is today launching its own take on this product area. Subscription billing is a massive area of opportunity as organizations look to gain increased flexibility and agility when it comes to selling their products in new

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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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