Category Archives: Business

May 23, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Book Review – The Phoenix Project

By Ben Kepes

A lifetime or so ago I studied management and spent much time reading and thinking about the book, “The Goal” written by Eli Goldratt. In the book, Goldratt sought to impart his theories about the management of a manufacturing organization through a fictional story about the protagonist’s journey of discovery

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May 22, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ShareFile Ties into the Hairball – Embraces legacy Storage

By Ben Kepes

Let’s face it, traditional enterprise data storage solutions tend to be big, inflexible and difficult to use. There’s a reason that Dropbox, Box and all the other “modern” collaboration solutions have had such strong growth – they may lack some of the bells and whistles of the traditional solutions but

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May 22, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloudscaling Scores $10M Series B and Some High Profile Customer

By Ben Kepes

Cloudscaling is this morning announcing that it has secured $10M by way of a Series B venture round. This news comes at a super interesting time when public cloud provision is being heavily squeezed into just a handful of vendors. At the same time every man and his dog is

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May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

The Empire Strikes Back – VMware Launches Hybrid Cloud Service

By Ben Kepes

There’s a fair few VMware folks scratching their heads today and wondering when the world changed quite so much. The company today announced its hybrid cloud solution, avialable today on an early access program. GA is slated for Q3 2013. Here’s some details: vCloud Hybrid Service Dedicated Cloud: Provides physically

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May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Arise the New Public Cloud Platform – Google is for Real

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just spent a few days at the extravaganza which is Google IO. As with previous occasions, this year’s event didn’t fail to blow away the attendees with the sheer amount of “wow” that Google manages to pull out – on so many fronts Google is doing incredible stuff. My

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May 20, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part Two

By Ben Kepes

Part two of my post-SuiteWorld reflections I attended NetSuite‘s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to attend) and it has been interesting to reflect on a company that is unabashedly growing up. Having been at all of the previous global NetSuite events, it was impressive

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May 17, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part One

By Ben Kepes

My post-event thoughts from SuiteWorld are just too weighty for one post hence I’ll break up my analysis into two posts and give folks a chance to digest them over time. Here follows part one. I attended NetSuite’s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to

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May 16, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

By Ben Kepes

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple disparate systems and bring sense to them. Business Intelligence is one

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May 16, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Enterprise Development and Testing Agility with CloudShare

By Ben Kepes

One of the big value propositions for cloud infrastructure is that in greatly reduces the hurdles that developers face when setting up environments for development and testing purposes. There are two issues that often get in the way of this process – the demand for limited physical resources, and the

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May 15, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Operations is Dead, but Please Don’t Replace it with DevOps

By Ben Kepes

OK, so the title is provocative, but bear with me here. Recently I spent a mind-expanding day at DevOpsCon in Israel – I presented the first keynote, which aimed to set the scene for why DevOps is a necessary reaction to some broad organizational and technological changes. What was really

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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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