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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 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Updates its Cloud Management Software

By Ben Kepes

Just in case anyone didn’t realize it – the future of IT is one where organizations use a wide variety of different solutions – public and private, and spanning different operating systems and application stacks to deliver the individual requirements of end users. The acquisition last week of Enstratius by

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May 7, 2013 Posted in Business 8 Comments

Who Said Dell is Dead? Enstratius Acquisition and Boomi API Management Play Suggest Reinvention is in Progress

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday Jo Maitland, GigaOm Pro Analyst, published a pretty damning post in which she characterized both Dell and BMC as, essentially, the living dead. Her view was that the move to privatize the companies (a done deal for BMC, in progress for Dell) is a last-gasp effort to resuscitate a

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April 24, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

OpenStack and The Enterprise Cloud – Not the Usual Suspects

By Ben Kepes

Last week saw me travel very briefly to Portland to attend the analyst day at the OpenStack Summit (disclosure – alongside a posse of my analyst colleagues, the OpenStack foundation covered my T&E to attend the event. I’m also in the process of writing a whitepaper supported by the foundation).

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March 22, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

CloudStack Graduates to an Apache Top Level Project

By Ben Kepes

Almost a year ago Citrix scored a coup when it’s CloudStack product (which itself was formerly the cloud operating system known as cloud.com) was elevated to the cloud platform of the Apache foundation. It was all the more interesting sine Cloud.com were founding members of OpenStack and the war of

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March 11, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Scribe – Prettying up Life for the Data Integration Crowd

By Ben Kepes

Data integration – it’s the elephant in the room when it comes to the adoption of cloud solutions. While a plethora of best of breed solutions might provide the best functional fit in specific areas, that only works when the solutions themselves work together seamlessly – which is where the

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March 11, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Dell Boomi’s Master Data Management and the Convergence of Data Management and Data Integration

By Ben Kepes

Many people in the cloud application integration space pour scorn on their more traditional competitors. The new guys like to laugh with derision at anyone who talk about data warehousing, Master data management (MDM) or anything less than real time. But a chat I had with Dell Boomi recently got

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March 6, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

By Ben Kepes

Last year saw the long-expected, and oft-delayed announcement by Google that it was entering the cloud infrastructure market. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a fairly immature (in terms of product breadth) raw infrastructure service that initially at least, seems to be trying to compete with the incumbent, Amazon Web Services,

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February 8, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Dell Boomi Announces New Milestones and Partnerships

By Ben Kepes

Only days after the announcement that Dell was going to return to private ownership, Dell subsidiary Boomi has come out with some news about its integration platform This is really timely given the near universal acknowledgement that software lies at the core of Dell’s future (more on this in a

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January 24, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Airline Customer Service 2.0

By Ben Kepes

I’m writing this email 30000 feet or so above the Pacific Ocean upon an Air New Zealand flight to San Francisco. I’m also somewhat agitated because I inadvertently left my wallet (and all of my credit cards and other essentials) at home in my office. As I fly along in

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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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