Monthly Archives: June 2012

June 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Moving To The Cloud – Internal Business Considerations

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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June 28, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis

By Ben Kepes

At GoogleIO today, Google announced the limited launch of its Infrastructure as a Service product, Google Compute Engine. This comes as no surprise, the move has been rumored for months and Google does undeniably have some of the largest scale infrastructure on earth alongside the smarts to run it amazingly

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June 28, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Technical Considerations When Moving To The 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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June 27, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Bill.com Helps Business Look forward with Real Time Cash Flow

By Ben Kepes

Cloud accounting vendors have long articulated a value proposition that, in part, talks of giving businesses a deep insight into their cash flow so they can make well informed plans for their short and mid-term financial future. The reality however is that accounting applications are by nature backwards looking and

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June 27, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode

By Ben Kepes

The battle royal that is being played out between the different Cloud “operating systems” reached new heights at Structure last week. While all of us are talking about this stuff however, vendors and customers alike are simply trying to get going with these tools. They’re not focused on idealogical battles,

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June 26, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Sunk Costs Are Just That, Sunk. Forget ‘Em

By Ben Kepes

Given the exposure I have online, it’s not surprising that my blog posts or other content often come up when people are searching for a particular answer to a question – this often leads to emails and phone calls from technology users who are looking for advice around some buying

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June 25, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis

By Ben Kepes

So Microsoft has confirmed the rumored acquisition of Yammer for $1.2B. Here’s my thoughts; Potentially this is a great opportunity for MSFT to create a fabric that spans their different enterprise products (Dynamics, Office, SharePoint) that’s a big big opportunity but I believe technology and platform hurdles will push that

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June 25, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP’sCloud Forays – DreamWorks runs on OpenStack Powered Production Kit

By Ben Kepes

At HP Discover (disclosure – HP covered my T&E to attend Discover), almost half of the opening day keynote was given over to DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg to articulate why DreamWorks has gone “all in” with HP. Katzenberg’s presentation was entertaining, and told the usual tails of an industry that

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June 22, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Big Data Analytics–On Structured and Unstructured

By Ben Kepes

Analysis of unstructured data is the hot topic these days – organizations are lured by the promise of deriving huge incremental value by gaining insights from crunching vast pools of seemingly random numbers to determine patterns and trends. While visiting the incredible SuperNAP data center in Las Vegas, I was

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June 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Garantia–Scaling and Protecting In-Memory NoSQL

By Ben Kepes

Note – this is (kind of) a repost – I was asked by Garantia’s PR company to pull an earlier post and publish this as the company gets ready to demo at Structure – that’s a highly unusual request but one I chose to follow out of respect to the

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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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