Tag Archives: Chief information officer

April 30, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Centralized File Control – NTP Software Launches Universal File Access

By Ben Kepes

The enterprise world is split between those who believe bottom-up approaches to file sharing (as typified by vendors like Box and Dropbox) will be the future of large organizations. On the other hand a number of people point to the status quo of centralized IT and suggest that the future

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February 6, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Good Reading–On What an Enterprise REALLY Needs

By Ben Kepes

Another chance to share an article that provides an alternative view from one you normally read here – in this case an opinion piece from an enterprise CIO on why he doesn’t believe Google is a credible enterprise vendor. Read the entire article here but some relevant quotes below: While

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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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October 12, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Private Clouds Must Be Agile

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, you can

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April 19, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

More on the IT Business Boiling Point

By Ben Kepes

Over the last few days I’ve been talking to people about the tension that exists between “traditional” and “next generation” software platforms. The discussions had their genesis in a post I wrote specifically looking at NetSuite and Oracle, but relate to a host of other vendors – Microsoft contrasted with

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February 1, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud Computing is Changing YOUR Job!

By Ben Kepes

Excuse the slightly cataclysmic title of this post, but the first post for 2012 in the CloudU notebook series is one which hopefully will get you thinking about your career and the changes it is going to undergo over the years to come. One of the drivers for the CloudU

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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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