Tag Archives: AWS

May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Arise the New Public Cloud Platform – Google is for Real

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just spent a few days at the extravaganza which is Google IO. As with previous occasions, this year’s event didn’t fail to blow away the attendees with the sheer amount of “wow” that Google manages to pull out – on so many fronts Google is doing incredible stuff. My

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April 24, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

OpenStack and The Enterprise Cloud – Not the Usual Suspects

By Ben Kepes

Last week saw me travel very briefly to Portland to attend the analyst day at the OpenStack Summit (disclosure – alongside a posse of my analyst colleagues, the OpenStack foundation covered my T&E to attend the event. I’m also in the process of writing a whitepaper supported by the foundation).

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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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March 21, 2013 Posted in Business 5 Comments

EMC, VMware and Pivotal Initiative–A Confusing Triumvirate

By Ben Kepes

I wanted to wait a few weeks before commenting on the worst kept secret in enterprise IT, the fact that VMware and EMC are creating a new entity, Pivotal, that is made up of the cloudy assets from both companies. After spending time ruminating on the new setup, I’m still

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March 6, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

By Ben Kepes

Last year saw the long-expected, and oft-delayed announcement by Google that it was entering the cloud infrastructure market. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a fairly immature (in terms of product breadth) raw infrastructure service that initially at least, seems to be trying to compete with the incumbent, Amazon Web Services,

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February 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Garantia Goes GA

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Garantia, the Israeli startup that is aiming to overcome some of the disadvantages that NoSQL databases come with – namely lack of persistence and scalability. Garantia’s solution is to offer Memcached with higher reliability and Redis with high scalability in an automated manner. Specific advantages include:

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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 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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