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April 22, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Want an Irrefutable Example of the Value of Cloud? Here Goes

By Ben Kepes

While the pundits debate the minutiae of cloud computing, and spend hours in detailed and complex arguments of what should and shouldn’t be moved to the cloud, other people are simply going out and doing stuff on the cloud that would previously have been almost impossible. It’s always nice to

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April 11, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud and Flexibility, Is It a Technology Problem or a Business One?

By Ben Kepes

The rise of Infrastructure as a Service got the world used to on demand, utility services that correlate perfectly with an organization’s particular demand profile Indeed one of the key value propositions that all cloud infrastructure vendors articulate is that, whereas in the fast infrastructure needed to be purchased in

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February 26, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

By Ben Kepes

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent release of Cloud Foundry, and the significant uptake it has had

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December 3, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

AWS, Redshift and Co-Opetition

By Ben Kepes

Long time technology commentators understand the tensions between platform companies, intent on both growing their business and creating a healthy ecosystem, and ecosystem partners who leverage what the platform brings, but remain apprehensive about the long term intensions of the platform vendor. Case in point – the growing number of

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July 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – I run the CloudU education program which is supported by Rackspace, one of the key backers of OpenStack. I am also an investor in Appsecute, a PaaS management platform. Today is an exciting day for anyone who follows the infrastructure or PaaS space today as Rackspace announced the

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May 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Standing Cloud Launches Their Very Own Marketplace

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago the cloud punditry was excited by the announcement that Amazon was introducing a marketplace to provide high-stack services on top of their infrastructure services. A number of us believe that as infrastructure becomes ever-more commoditized, it will be through providing services at higher levels of the

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April 24, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

AWS Launches a Marketplace–Proof that Much of the Value is Further Up the Stack

By Ben Kepes

Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from that in the short term but it’s a risk for them long term. Other infrastructure vendors will surely follow suit. It’s game on!

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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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