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February 1, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Traditional IT Shops Starting to Evangelize Cloud, and End to the FUD In Sight?

By Ben Kepes

I was interested to read some coverage of the recent event that was run by Amazon Web Services in Sydney, Australia to celebrate the launch of two Sydney availability zones for the company. As an aside its interesting to look at the list of services that AWS has chosen to

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December 31, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

2013 Cloud Prediction (Yes, I Only Have One)

By Ben Kepes

For over a month now I’ve been seeing cloud predictions, big data predictions, storage predictions and many others. Truth be told the only sort of prediction I’m interested as I spend a month in Australia on a road trip with the family is weather predictions. That said, I should avoid

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November 19, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Australian Startups Sentinus Aims to “Clean Up the Cloud”

By Ben Kepes

Security is often identified as one of the barriers to wider cloud adoption. Even though it is often counter to reality, there is significant doubt in many organization’s minds about the relative security of cloud as opposed to their traditional on-premise cloud. As I said this is often an irrational

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August 24, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Rackspace Allays Australasian Patriot Act Fears

By Ben Kepes

News the other day that Rackspace (see disclosure) will soon be opening its first data center in Sydney, Australia. This marks the first large scale US vendor to announce a local operation in my neck of the woods – rumor has it that others won’t be far away. The news

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May 23, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Evangelism From Unexpected Quarters, And The Macro-Economic Impacts Of Cloud

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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April 10, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

NetSuite Scores Resources Company–This is Big

By Ben Kepes

I spend a lot of time in Australia running CloudCamps that attracts a wide variety of participants – industry, government, startups and education all attend the events. One group that tends to be missing at CloudCamp however, and from the broader cloud discussion, is the large resource related companies.Often these

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October 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Flawed Analysis–On Clouds “Playing Nice”

By Ben Kepes

The other day someone alerted me to a new report put out by IT news that lauds itself as a “technical study of the integration and extension options offered by the largest 20 software-as-a-service vendors serving the Australian enterprise.” The report looks at a few different dimensions including; Can I

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July 15, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On Disaster Recovery for SMBs

By Ben Kepes

This has been a big year for disasters in my neck of the woods. From floods and fires in Australia to ongoing Earthquakes in Canterbury – business have had their continuity approaches tested and retested to the limit. One of the most important continuity aspects is disaster recovery. Acronis, a

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December 30, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Those Aussie Getting All 1999 Again

By Ben Kepes

I’ve got a soft spot for Australia – sure they’re not so good at sports, and they spell culture with a capital “K”, but despite their failings I’ve grown to like them. Part of this came from spending a fair amount of time in Aussie this year running 10 or

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September 4, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 3 Comments

Xero testing Australian version

By Ben Kepes

This just in – I got a newsletter from Xero saying that they’re currently testing their Australian version and will be releasing soon. Another step in the global domination plan. It’s going to be real interesting to see Saasu and Xero go head to head. Bring it 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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