Tag Archives: azure

March 13, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Microsoft’s Azure Outage Post Mortem

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft had one of their worst days and watched as a massive outage took out Azure services globally. The outage lasted about a day and took down a huge number of sites and applications. After a few hours it became apparent that the outage was

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February 22, 2013 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Microsoft has Massive Azure Outage-Heads Must Roll!

By Ben Kepes

The screen shot says it all – as I type Microsoft Azure is suffering from an outage, possibly caused by an expired SSL certificate. Services across the globe are completely down with limited visibility into why and when they will be back up. The Azure service dashboard (hosted on AWS

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August 11, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Intuit Moves up the Stack for IPP – Drops Native Platform

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been following Intuit’s moves to become a relevant Cloud player for many years now, and was one of the first people to write about the Intuit Partner Platform when it launched almost three years ago. The Internet Partner Platform was created in order to enable applications to be created

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July 19, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Greenbutton Nabs Microsoft, Swiftpoint Nabs Costco

By Ben Kepes

I always like to be able to write about the successes of businesses down in my neck of the woods and today I’ve got a couple of stories to write about. Firstly GreenButton, the company that I’ve called “the perfect cloud case study” nabbed USD1M in funding from non other

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January 18, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Microsoft and the Lack of Startup Cred

By Ben Kepes

The recent domain profiling of Y Combinator startups was interesting reading from a “how far ahead of corporate IT are startups when it comes to cloud services?” question, but also interesting was a look at Microsoft‘s performance among the companies. Startups are cool right? And large technology companies want to

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August 6, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Automating Private Clouds a Growth Area

By Ben Kepes

As acceptance of the cloud computing concept grows, many companies are using private clouds are an entrance ramp to cloud computing. Companies are seeing this trend, and the the marketplace is divided between big-vendor solutions and smaller players looking to offer broad solutions that aren’t vendor-specific. It’s a busy space

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July 12, 2010 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Azure Launches Cloud in a Box, But this one might be more than just CloudWash

By Ben Kepes

Big news today was the announcement by Microsoft that it is releasing Azure technology to some hardware vendors. The ideas of this is to create a Windows Azure platform appliance that will form (according to Dell, one of the hardware partners) a “turnkey cloud platform available to enterprises to enable

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June 17, 2010 Posted in Strategy 4 Comments

Zuora and Azure Hook Up to Bill the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

And here was me thinking the cloud was all about altruism – no folks, it’s about money, pure and simple. Saving it at the buy-side, making it at the sell-side. News today from Zuora (see disclosure) that they will join the Microsoft Windows Azure Technology Adoption Program (TAP) as the first on-demand billing and subscription [...]

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June 4, 2010 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

T Shirt Friday #45 – Microsoft Azure

By Ben Kepes

Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with  [...]

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June 3, 2010 Posted in appcloud, Design, engineyard, rails, xcloud 3 Comments

EngineYard Goes Upmarket with its Ruby PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Just the other day Krish posted about the new partnership between Apigee and Heroku the Ruby PaaS player. Hot on the heels of that announcement comes news that EngineYard are partnering with TerreMark to provide a more enterprise class Ruby PaaS. First some background – EngineYard already has AppCloud, a mid level Ruby PaaS offering [...]

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