Monthly Archives: May 2012

May 31, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Cloud – It’s Not About Cost

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-tos, 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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May 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Opportunities and Challenges for IT Managers

By Ben Kepes

Recently I was invited by IBM to host a lunch in Auckland that bought together a handful of IT managers from a range of organizations. the aim of the lunch was to have a discussion, in a neutral forum, about the opportunities and challenges that cloud brings to their organizations.

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May 29, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Migration – The Pain And The Opportunity

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-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

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May 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Huddle Picks Up Massive Series C Round

By Ben Kepes

Exciting news this morning from Cloud content management and collaboration company Huddle. The UK founded but now US/UK headquartered company is this morning announcing a Series C funding round to the tune of $24M. The round takes Huddle’s funding to $40 million in the five or so years since it

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May 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent the last few years watching the meteoric rise of cloud content management vendor Box. Their approach has been to empower individual groups or business units within an organization to collaborate more effectively around their content and then to expand their presence within the organization. The “land and expand”

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May 23, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Evangelism From Unexpected Quarters, And The Macro-Economic Impacts Of Cloud

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-tos, 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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May 21, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chatter Messenger – Real-Time Synchronicity

By Ben Kepes

Note – this post was embargoed until tomorrow morning but alas (and again) that embargo was broken by others. Since it was, I’m releasing the post early… but not happily. About the time you read this, salesforce CEO Marc Benioff [note – it will not be Benioff on stage but rather

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May 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SuiteCommerce and the Value of End To End

By Ben Kepes

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld event recently [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend] the company announced SuiteCommerce an end-to-end solution that ties back end ERP functionality with customer facing e-commerce solutions that are optimized across any endpoint – desktop, mobile, tablet etc. It’s a compelling proposition and one which

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May 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Standing Cloud Launches Their Very Own Marketplace

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago the cloud punditry was excited by the announcement that Amazon was introducing a marketplace to provide high-stack services on top of their infrastructure services. A number of us believe that as infrastructure becomes ever-more commoditized, it will be through providing services at higher levels of the

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May 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Issues Around Cloud Adoption – Part Two

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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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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