Tag Archives: Christian Reilly

March 25, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Application Portability–An Ever More Crowded Space

By Ben Kepes

Every time I start to use the term “cloud bursting”, friend and Clouderati ringleader Christian Reilly’s eyes start to roll and he makes comments about the illusory nature of the term – in his view, true application portability that sees workloads simply move from one place to another is a

Tagged Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSwitch, Google Ventures, Ravello, RightScale, Sun Microsystems, VMware |

January 8, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Required Reading – The Promise of the Internet of Things

By Ben Kepes

My friends and respected technologists Christian Reilly and Justin Burleigh are often to be found deep in discussion while cradling a pint of Stella. Often these discussions point to what they sees as the big mid-term opportunity for the world to benefit from technology – the internet of things. In

Tagged Business, Christian Reilly, Future, General Electric, Internet of Things, Sustainability, Technology, Wi-Fi |

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

Tagged Application programming interface, Bechtel, Central processing unit, Chief technology officer, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSigma, Random-access memory |

September 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That

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

Tagged Apigee, Application programming interface, Bechtel, Business, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, enterprise 2.0, Steven Willmott |

August 8, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

By Ben Kepes

Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages. I will say that with Cloud Computing outages are more obvious

Tagged amazon web services, AWS, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enStratus, George Reese, NetworkWorld |

July 2, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally announces the fraught with stress acquisition of Quest and marks a

Tagged amazon web services, BMC, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, Dell, DynamicOps, RightScale, VMware |

June 20, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Surveys, and Extrapolating Out to Disruption

By Ben Kepes

The other day a minor storm broke out amongst the clouderati that had its genesis in a post Krishnan wrote looking at who is likely to disrupt AWS (teaser – PaaS from one end and alternative IaaS operating systems from the other). Anyway – the bottom line from the disagreement

Tagged Business, Christian Reilly, cloudcamp, cloudcomputing, e-commerce, OpenStack, Platform as a service, Software as a Service |

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.