Tag Archives: Application programming interface

December 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Guest post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS. Part II – Developer & Platform Services

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and accepted his offer since I see a lot of value in

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December 18, 2012 Posted in Business 8 Comments

Drivers for Cloud Adoption–CIO Research

By Ben Kepes

Interesting survey results just released that indicate cost isn’t the highest factor in cloud adoption (yay – at last people are talking more about non-cost impacts of cloud) – Respondents believe compliance requirements, value and competitive advantage are the key drivers for cloud adoption. The survey was conducted by Dimensional

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December 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Acquires Prior Knowledge

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago salesforce announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company Prior Knowledge. The announcement came on the day before Thanksgiving and hence was little reported – interestingly the Prior Knowledge team moves quickly to shut down the API for their public product, Veritable, as well as

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December 12, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Guest Post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS – Part I – Infrastructure & Operational Services

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and accepted his offer since I see a lot of value in

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December 11, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

MuleSoft Launches API Repository and Community Resource

By Ben Kepes

MuleSoft, the integration platform for both SaaS and on-premise applications, is today announcing the launch of APIhub, a public repository and community resource for API discovery. The idea of the hub is to give both application developers, and enterprise customers the ability to find and use a wide selection of

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December 5, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

By Ben Kepes

At HP’s Discover event here in Frankfurt today, the company will be announcing a private PaaS offering, built on top of Stackato, the PaaS which is itself a fork of the open source Cloud Foundry initiative. HP has entered into an agreement with ActiveState, the company behind Stackato, to OEM

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November 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Follow Up Post – Continuuity, the PaaS for Big Data (and a $10M Series A)

By Ben Kepes

When Continuuity came out of stealth recently I was a little dismissive of a press release that was full of buzzwords and lacking significant details about what they’re actually doing. To their credit the Continuuity team reached out to me and spent some time talking about what they’re seeing in

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November 9, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from VentureBeat My background and entry into the technology industry came from my experience wrangling tech for a number of different small and mid-sized businesses. I’ve seen first hand just how much work is involved in tailoring discrete solutions into something that actually meets the specific needs of

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November 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zendesk Launches Voice for New Zealand Customers

By Ben Kepes

Exciting news for New Zealand customers of Zendesk (disclosure – in the past I’ve done a small amount of consulting for them) who, from today, will be able to join Zendesk customers in other counties in utilizing Zendesk Voice. Zendesk voice (my writeup here) gained a lot of attention a

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November 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Apache releases CloudStack 4.0 Incubating Release

By Ben Kepes

Open Source projects are great at encouraging chest thumping and misty eyes, but the really exciting thing about them is when they start to actually come to life – as in ship real products that can be used. Linux was an exciting idea when it was Linus Torvalds’ project 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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