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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May 7, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Boundary Delivers Consolidated IT Ops

By Ben Kepes

Boundary is an interesting company and one of a handful of vendors that are reinventing what application monitoring means in a world where application stacks are more complex, more modular, more disconnected and more flexible. Boundary is selling itself based on cloud-readiness and one-second visualizations around performance. Today they’re extending

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May 6, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Nasty Truth Around Public Cloud Ecosystems

By Ben Kepes

Recently there have been a few high-profile examples of small cloud providers turning off support for one or another public clouds. First came AppFog who made the mysterious decision to cut off all support for their PaaS running on Rackspace infrastructure. Only a few days later Xeround announced that they

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May 3, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

By Ben Kepes

If there is one thing that gets enterprise folks riled up, it’s those sitting in the gallery talking about cloud bursting and application portability in general. To the excited blog posts announcing the latest solution to the application portability problem come howls of derision claiming that it’s all a pipe

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May 2, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees my friend Krishnan Subramanian and I put on the Cloud 2020 Summit in Vegas. The summit is an exclusive look at the future of cloud infrastructure – it’s going to bring together pundits, vendors and enterprise buyers to postulate on where the industry is going. We’ve spent

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May 2, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Launches Communities – Tying the Back Office to the Customer View

By Ben Kepes

As the pace of business increases, and consumers of products or services demand that their provider is more responsive to their particular requirements, there is an ever growing need for customer facing solutions which are integrated with the back office solutions that organizations use to run their sales, marketing and

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May 1, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

By Ben Kepes

Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the large cloud players. Quickly we begun to postulate about what a

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April 30, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Centralized File Control – NTP Software Launches Universal File Access

By Ben Kepes

The enterprise world is split between those who believe bottom-up approaches to file sharing (as typified by vendors like Box and Dropbox) will be the future of large organizations. On the other hand a number of people point to the status quo of centralized IT and suggest that the future

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April 30, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

By Ben Kepes

I’m a strong believer in the notion of social streaming tools for enterprise – I’ve seen how tools like Yammer can really drive productivity within small businesses. The problems come when these sorts of tools are rolled out into larger organizations where one of two things happen: No one uses

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April 29, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Speaking in Tech Podcast

By Ben Kepes

While I was in the Bay Area recently for Cloud Connect, I took the opportunity to spend half an hour or so recording a podcast with Ed Saipetch from Savvis and Margaret Dawson, newly appointed VP of Marketing and cloud evangelist at HP. We borrowed a hotel suite, cracked open

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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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