Monthly Archives: August 2012

August 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A Conversation on Open Cloud–Google+ Hangout

By Ben Kepes

The discussion around open versus closed in the cloud is reaching fever pitch but what does it all mean? Many people have but the loosest understanding of what open cloud means and the differences between open source, open clouds and federated clouds. I’m in the process of writing a paper

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August 30, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

PaaS API Specification Submitted to OASIS–CAMP Blowing Around in the Tumbleweeds

By Ben Kepes

I took some time out of my day at CloudOpen today to dial in for a briefing from some of the companies behind a new industry standard, Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) management Application Programming Interface (API) specification. I’m always dubious about these sorts of initiatives,

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August 30, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – the accounting space is an area I follow closely and one in which I have spent time consulting with a host of different vendors. Full details on my disclosure page but suffice it to say I have consulted to a number of companies covered in this post –

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August 29, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

DMTF Releases Cloud Infrastructure Standard

By Ben Kepes

Standards – a topic sure to raise the blood pressure of those discussing them. Some say that it’s too early for cloud standards as they have a tendency to hamper innovation. Others say that it’s only through standards that we can protect cloud customer. Into this fray comes the DMTF,

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August 28, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

AppFog Aquires Nodester

By Ben Kepes

As PaaS continues to generate ever-increasing levels of attention, the velocity of innovation in the space ramps up. Alongside this innovation, and in an effort to speed development, we’ll begin to see some consolidation with well-funded players acquiring companies to add to their own product mix. We’ll also see well-funded

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August 28, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always struck me that there is a lot of value left on

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August 27, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Another Answer for a Safe Hybrid Dropbox-like Solution–MagFS Launches

By Ben Kepes

Two things most enterprise IT folks agree on are that Dropbox is a risky proposition for sensitive enterprise data and that employees are demanding solutions with a “Dropbox-like” functional spec. It’s a big area of opportunity and one that companies like Egnyte and Oxygen Cloud have spent time addressing –

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August 24, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Rackspace Allays Australasian Patriot Act Fears

By Ben Kepes

News the other day that Rackspace (see disclosure) will soon be opening its first data center in Sydney, Australia. This marks the first large scale US vendor to announce a local operation in my neck of the woods – rumor has it that others won’t be far away. The news

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August 23, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Sumo Logic Delivers VMware Product

By Ben Kepes

In the lead up to next weeks VMworld event, the product and partnership announcements are coming thick and fast. This morning it is the turn of Sumo Logic who are announcing that their log management and analytics product covers log data from VMware products. This integration sees Sumo Logic users

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August 22, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Amazon Delivers Glacier for Archival Storage

By Ben Kepes

News a couple of days ago that Amazon Web Services is adding AWS Glacier to it’s product catalog. AWS is designed for one thing only – long term archival of data that isn’t routinely accessed. I’s not speed optimized but what it is, is price optimized. From AWS’s blurb; Amazon

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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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