Tag Archives: Chief technology officer

April 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I have to give a well times disclosure at this point, New

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September 28, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice

By Ben Kepes

As we move to broader scale cloud adoption, one would be excused for assuming that we’d reached a point where the definition of what constitutes infrastructure as a service is set in stone – true different vendors package up their virtual servers with different specs, but IaaS is, to a

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September 20, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

End User Computing… Central Control or Distributed Safety? On Bromium’s Novel Play

By Ben Kepes

At VMworld back in August, one of the small number of announcements made revolved around “end user computing”, VMware’s term for all the different products that deliver solutions for actual business users. VMware announced a suite of solutions, built around a bunch of different projects (Projects Octopus, AppBlast, ThinApp, VMware

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July 17, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Loggly Gains Funding and a New Exec Team

By Ben Kepes

In the race to deliver the benefits that big data is promising, a number of products are coming to market that help capture data to later be analyzed by big data tools. One area of particular promise is that of online logging – an area that is important as software

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February 27, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Zynga and Z-Cloud–A Corollary to the Public Cloud

By Ben Kepes

At the Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara recently, Allan Leinwand, CTO from  Zynga presented a keynote the day after a fairly emphatic statement contained in their earnings call that speaks to their marked retreat from the public cloud. In the space of 12 months Zynga has gone from 80%

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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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