Tag Archives: Business

May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

The Empire Strikes Back – VMware Launches Hybrid Cloud Service

By Ben Kepes

There’s a fair few VMware folks scratching their heads today and wondering when the world changed quite so much. The company today announced its hybrid cloud solution, avialable today on an early access program. GA is slated for Q3 2013. Here’s some details: vCloud Hybrid Service Dedicated Cloud: Provides physically

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May 16, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Enterprise Development and Testing Agility with CloudShare

By Ben Kepes

One of the big value propositions for cloud infrastructure is that in greatly reduces the hurdles that developers face when setting up environments for development and testing purposes. There are two issues that often get in the way of this process – the demand for limited physical resources, and the

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May 2, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Launches Communities – Tying the Back Office to the Customer View

By Ben Kepes

As the pace of business increases, and consumers of products or services demand that their provider is more responsive to their particular requirements, there is an ever growing need for customer facing solutions which are integrated with the back office solutions that organizations use to run their sales, marketing and

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April 23, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Infer Raises $10 Million; Helps Companies Use Data to Win More Customers

By Ben Kepes

Every time we hear about a new company harvesting big data to deliver valuable insights a kitten somewhere dies. Big data, and its related buzzwords, are apparent at every turn. But beyond the over-hyping, there is some real value that the concept of data-powered business applications can generate. Which is

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April 22, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Want an Irrefutable Example of the Value of Cloud? Here Goes

By Ben Kepes

While the pundits debate the minutiae of cloud computing, and spend hours in detailed and complex arguments of what should and shouldn’t be moved to the cloud, other people are simply going out and doing stuff on the cloud that would previously have been almost impossible. It’s always nice to

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April 19, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Xerox Deliver Mobile Device Management with a Healthcare Twist

By Ben Kepes

One area that needs as much technological help to drive efficiencies within it is healthcare. Anyone who has bounced between doctors, specialists and different hospital departments knows just how broken the health system is – while Michael Moore famously pointed out the failings of the US health system, it’s fair

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April 18, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SMB Stock and Inventory from Quote Stock Sell

By Ben Kepes

Inventory is a critical part of any business that works in the real (ie physical) world. However given the seeming unquenchable excitement for the virtual world, inventory is sadly often dismissed down the priority list in favor of “sexier” functional areas. This oversight however proves an opportunity for people with

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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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April 10, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Wave Takes on the Scanned Receipts Market

By Ben Kepes

Anyone who thinks small business have simple requirements in terms of software has never worked within an SMB. SMBs requirements are often just as complex as those of enterprise but they don’t have the resourcing that larger organizations do – a double whammy that puts them at a distinct disadvantage.

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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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