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April 14, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Rackspace Taps Third party Service Providers to Build Out International Presence

By Ben Kepes

Rackspace (disclosure – Rackspace supported the creation of the CloudU education program I formerly ran) is a little bit like the little engine that could. It’s continually fighting the perception (and, to be frank, the reality) that it’s the very poor cousin to the AWS steamroller. As such it needs

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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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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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November 28, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

HP Discover Europe and the Viability of HP’s Cloud Play

By Ben Kepes

I’m heading to Europe for HP’s Discover event and the conference has me thinking about the last Discover event I attended in Las Vegas earlier his year and HP’s awful few weeks around the Autonomy debacle. Alongside my theme du jour of traditional enterprises (and traditional vendors) being disrupted by

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November 27, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Re:Invent Announcements–Boundary Introduces Pre-Emptive Monitoring

By Ben Kepes

This week marks the first Amazon Web Services user conference. The AWS event, re:Invent, is being held in Las Vegas and given the massive awareness that AWS and its ecosystem has, we should see lots of product announcements from both Amazon themselves and ecosystem companies. First up is Boundary who

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September 4, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

By Ben Kepes

In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a guest post from Jinesh Varia from AWS who correctly pointed out some of the difficulties around calculating

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August 22, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Amazon Delivers Glacier for Archival Storage

By Ben Kepes

News a couple of days ago that Amazon Web Services is adding AWS Glacier to it’s product catalog. AWS is designed for one thing only – long term archival of data that isn’t routinely accessed. I’s not speed optimized but what it is, is price optimized. From AWS’s blurb; Amazon

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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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April 3, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Citrix Scores a Coup–CloudStack to Become Cloud Platform of the Apache Foundation

By Ben Kepes

[Addendum - I knew about this announcement a week ago. Out of respect for those who briefed me on it under embargo I have decided to hold to the embargo despite others decisions not to do so. Personally I feel that breaking embargos is bad form at best, unethical at

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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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