Monthly Archives: July 2012

July 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – I run the CloudU education program which is supported by Rackspace, one of the key backers of OpenStack. I am also an investor in Appsecute, a PaaS management platform. Today is an exciting day for anyone who follows the infrastructure or PaaS space today as Rackspace announced the

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July 31, 2012 Posted in Business 12 Comments

Dropbox Security Issues–IT has itself to Blame

By Ben Kepes

So Dropbox, the file sharing, backup and sync service that has been setting the world on fire, seems to have had some serious problems of late. It seems a large number of users have received spam e-mails and, in response, Dropbox has bought in a SWAT team of security experts

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July 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

By Ben Kepes

Last week say NetSuite report it’s Q2 revenue and earnings – hi level numbers include; Subscription and support revenue was $61.0 million, a 27 percent increase on an annual basis Cash flows from operations were $15.2 million, up by 80 percent from Q2 2011 While the specific numbers themselves are

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July 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

By Ben Kepes

Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique and questioning, Xero’s events instead ring to the sound of hand-clapping

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July 27, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Interview with The Cube

By Ben Kepes

While in New York a month or so ago I presented at the OPDCA Forecast event. Just before going on stage John Furrier from Silicon Angle interviewed me for The Cube. He wanted to get my thoughts on a wide variety of topics – from cloudwashing to big data, from

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July 25, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

AppFog Goes GA, Helps Developers Forget About Economics

By Ben Kepes

AppFog is today announcing it is ready for general availability and rolling out some changes along side the release. I spent some time talking with AppFog founder Lucas Carlson last week at OSCON and then again this week by phone to dive in on the details of the release. In

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July 25, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

CCH Powers Up to for Accounting Practices

By Ben Kepes

Cross posting of a guest post I wrote for BoxFreeIT earlier this week Hot on the heels of the CCH acquisition of Acclipse and its practice management and client side accounting solutions, I sat down with CCH CEO Russell Evans to take a deep dive into where the industry is

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July 24, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Accessibility and the Untold Issue Around Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While helping create the Cloud Computing Code of Practice alongside the New Zealand Computer Society, I was approached by Kevin Prince who is the Manager of Innovation and Development working within the Access, Innovation & Enterprise unit of the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind. The RNZFB, as the

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July 23, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

Yet another day of massive news with today’s blast coming from VMware who are acquiring Nicira, a five year old veteran of software defined networking (SDN). This follows closely on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps, a heterogeneous cloud management tools and really speaks to VMware’s view on a

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July 23, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Book review–Kill the Company

By Ben Kepes

I seem to be on the mailing list for book publishers wanting people to read and review new business tomes – that’s not such a bad thing – I get a heap of literature and a great way to expand my library. The most recent review copy I was sent

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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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