Tag Archives: Amazon EC2

January 5, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Tips for Organizations Heading to the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

In my travels speaking with organizations looking to move to the Cloud, I’m often confronted by folks who have an innate distrust of all things Cloud. These folks are easy to deals with; I respect their opinion (despite entirely disagreeing with it) and am happy enough to leave them alone

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December 14, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ControlMyCloud Goes Beta

By Ben Kepes

One of the concerns that many people have when considering a move to the cloud is that of granular control. The last thing an organization wants is to open the flood gates to uncontrolled performance, cost or poor efficiency. Sensible Cloud is trying to deliver on these concerns and is

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November 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

By Ben Kepes

Whenever technology platforms change, there is a scramble to provide the underlying services upon which the new paradigm sits. The move to the cloud is no different and cloud monitoring is one area where there is a significant amount of activity in terms of startups being founded and funded. Today

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September 20, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Offers DBaaS on Rackspace Cloud

By Ben Kepes

Xeround the database service (more on them here) that is brining high levels of flexibility to cloud database users, is today rolling out availability on the Rackspace cloud. Formerly available on Amazon EC2 and Heroku, Xeround is moving in their ambition to support a large number of cloud infrastructure providers.

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August 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimbula for Geographically Distributed Clouds

By Ben Kepes

I’ve covered Nimbula previously, the company that is aiming to blend the scale enjoyed by public cloud providers like Amazon with the customization and control that private infrastructure enjoys. Nimbula has royal blood behind is with an executive/founder team of high fliers including the original team behind Amazon EC2. According

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June 13, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Goes GA with Cloud Database

By Ben Kepes

Xeround today announced the general availability of its Cloud Database for MySQL Applications. Xeround is a pay-per-use cloud database service that enables customers to only pay for actual resources consumed and not by server/instance size. This can be contrasted with other Cloud Databases, notably Amazon RDS, that require customers to

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March 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Xeround Still Has Faith in Heroku

By Ben Kepes

Late last year salesforce.com announced its acquisition of PaaS product Heroku. At the time there was a smattering of concern from users of Heroku as to what the acquisition would mean for Heroku – would salesforce play nice with the product and community? Would developers still want to hang out

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March 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimbula goes GA and Creates an Ecosystem

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written previously about Nimbula (see here) the company founded by the creators of Amazon’s EC2 product to; Blend Amazon EC2-like scale, agility and efficiency, with private infrastructure customization and control Previously only available to beta testers, Nimbula is today making a double announcement, the first involved the release to

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January 18, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Microsoft and the Lack of Startup Cred

By Ben Kepes

The recent domain profiling of Y Combinator startups was interesting reading from a “how far ahead of corporate IT are startups when it comes to cloud services?” question, but also interesting was a look at Microsoft‘s performance among the companies. Startups are cool right? And large technology companies want to

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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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