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February 25, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Answers IT Concerns – Deeper Security Options Roll Out

By Ben Kepes

Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about Dropbox releasing an entire swathe of new security functionality that sees it firmly mark itself as entering the corporate market and responding to the needs of IT. As I said at the time, Dropbox has long signaled an intention to move

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February 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

By Ben Kepes

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to ensure your name would live on after your death. While

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February 12, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Dropbox Listens to the Criticism–Starts to Mature Corporate Product

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been a harsh critic of Dropbox in the past – mostly because I feel they lack maturity – both as a company and as a product – and this lack of maturity is a real risk for enterprise customers using their product. It seems Dropbox has been listening to

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January 21, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Sure Dropbox is Potentially Insecure, but Does it Matter?

By Ben Kepes

It’s summertime down in my neck of the woods and that’s a good time to go out on a limb with a statement that might get people a little fired up. Bear with me on this one though… Over on GigaOm Barb Darrow has a good write up about the

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January 10, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators – Part One

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take the time to report the two part interview – it’s long

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November 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

By Ben Kepes

On a daily basis I get press releases from companies offering to be the “Dropbox for the Enterprise”, these companies are treading the well worn path of leveraging the well recognized name of a player in order to get their point across. Perhaps in an indication of the market success

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October 2, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

BoxWorks 2012–Predictions and Prognostications

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me in San Francisco for the annual Box user conference (disclosure – Box is covering my T&E account), it’s an interesting time for the company, only a couple of weeks ago Salesforce stole some of their thunder by announcing a file sync and collaboration tool. BoxWorks is

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September 19, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Salesforce Becomes the First Next Generation Enterprise Platform

By Ben Kepes

A quick roundup of DreamForce news for today – with the disclosure that Salesforce is covering my T&E to be able to be here at the event. Strong words but, as I predicted, the announcements at this years DreamForce point to Salesforce firmly creating for itself the position of first

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September 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown

By Ben Kepes

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff leaked his own company’s news of a new content collaboration and sharing service dubbed ChatterBox. I’ve actually known about the product for a month or so, my sources who told me of its initial existence said that it was a direct

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September 11, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Looking Forward to DreamForce 2012

By Ben Kepes

The annual Salesforce extravaganza DreamForce is just around the corner (disclosure, I’ll be attending DreamForce and Salesforce will be covering my T&E account) and with it comes my annual look forward and prediction of what is to come. For reference check out my previous prediction posts here and here. This

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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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