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May 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Business Value of Private PaaS

By Ben Kepes

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of being involved with the second DeployCon event. DeployCon is an event that explores Platform as a Service and its place in the technology landscape going forwards. As part of the event I had the pleasure of moderating a panel which

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April 1, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Speaking at DeployCon and CloudConnect

By Ben Kepes

This week sees me on a whirlwind visit to the Bay Area where I’ll be speaking at a few different events as follows: Tuesday – DeployCon I’m really looking forward to the second edition of DeployCon – in the morning I’ll be moderating a panel with two of my favorite

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December 5, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

By Ben Kepes

At HP’s Discover event here in Frankfurt today, the company will be announcing a private PaaS offering, built on top of Stackato, the PaaS which is itself a fork of the open source Cloud Foundry initiative. HP has entered into an agreement with ActiveState, the company behind Stackato, to OEM

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November 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On VMware’s Cloud Foundry Core and PaaS Portability

By Ben Kepes

Recently VMware announce Core, a baseline test that assesses how compatible an application is to the Cloud Foundry open source release. In order to derive this compatibility rating, Core is based on a base set of components – specific versions of runtimes and components that are currently within the Core

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July 17, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do

By Ben Kepes

With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely planning to spin off some of its assets into a separate

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July 11, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Appsecute Launches–PaaS marketplace and Management Platform

By Ben Kepes

A few months ago I was at an event in the US and received a tweet introducing me to some guys back in New Zealand who were apparently building something on top of Cloud Foundry. Now New Zealand isn’t exactly the central hub of the tech universe, and I’d always

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July 10, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ActiveState Lanches Stackato 2.0

By Ben Kepes

ActiveState (see coverage here), is today announcing the general availability of version 2 of Stackato, their private PaaS designed for enterprise customers. By way of introductions, over the 15 or so years it has existed, ActiveState have focused on understanding three things deeply; Developers, Enterprises and OpenSource technologies. I spent

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January 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services

By Ben Kepes

With the multitude of PaaS vendors that now exist, most providing an all-things-to-all-people polyglot solution that is (in my view at least) largely undifferentiated from their competitors, there is an increasing focus on vendors making partnerships that allows them to build both mindshare and market penetration. The latest is ActiveState

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November 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Stackato gets Management and Monitoring for Private PaaS

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been really positive about Cloud Foundry, seeing it as doing the sort of things for PaaS that OpenStack does for IaaS. If Cloud Foundry succeeds in its aim, Organizations will have a PaaS solution that they can use where they want, with whichever cloud provider they want and with

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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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