Tag Archives: cloud computing

June 17, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On PRISM, the Cloud and Granularity

By Ben Kepes

Since news of the US data interception program, PRISM, hit the world, there has been the expected firestorm of comments suggesting that this would be the death-knell of the cloud. It’s something of a tradition that whenever anything even remotely related to the internet occurs, open source zealots like Richard

Tagged cloud computing, MegaUpload, Microsoft, Patriot Act, PRISM, privacy, Richard Stallman, United States |

June 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ODCA Forecast and Structure Panels Next Week

By Ben Kepes

Next week I’m heading to San Francisco for a few days to take part in a couple of events. Firstly I’ll e taking part again in the annual Forecast event run by the Open Data Center Alliance. Forecast was held in New York last year and managed to bring together

Tagged cloud computing, Marriott International, ODCA, Open data, Open Data Center Alliance, Paul Miller, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, UBS |

June 10, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

On Cloud Brokers

By Ben Kepes

For a few years now the punditry has been discussing the need, or otherwise, of a financial intermediary layer that sits between cloud vendors and customers. Those who deny the validity of the space point to the fact that, since cloud vendors are in a direct service-provision relationship with the

Tagged Business, cloud computing, Customer, e-commerce, Information technology, John Cowan, San Antonio, Software as a Service |

June 7, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloud Infrastructure – It’s All About Granularity

By Ben Kepes

A post from Barb Darrow over at GigaOm caught my eye this morning. In the post Barb suggests that we’ll see many more specific vertical clouds from AWS, akin to the GovCloud. As she wrote: Here’s one I think the company will pursue, if it’s not doing it already. In

Tagged amazon, amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, GigaOm, GovCloud, Platform as a service, rackspace |

June 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

ActiveState Acquires Appsecute – Job Done, Now Back to Work

By Ben Kepes

(Disclosure – I was an investor and director in Appsecute and am an Adviser to ActiveState) Around 18 months ago I was introduced to Mark Cox and Tyler Power, two smart guys from my hometown who were building a PaaS management product around the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. The fact that

Tagged ActiveState, christchurch, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Mark Cox, New Zealand, platform services, stackato |

May 29, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A Tale of Two Public Cloud Strategies – Dell Drops Out While VMware Embraces Hybrid

By Ben Kepes

Want to look at two legacy vendors displaying wildly differing approaches to the public cloud? Roll up and compare Dell and VMware. In the past few weeks Dell announced that it was backing away from its OpenStack powered private cloud while VMware announced its long-rumored hybrid cloud. Two different vendors

Tagged amazon web services, cloud computing, Dell, Netflix, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, Simon Wardley, VMware |

May 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Xero Rolls Out Payment Services – Closing More SMB Loops

By Ben Kepes

The advent of cloud computing brought with it the promise of increased efficiencies for small and mid sized businesses. These efficiencies were to be created by the very fact that the software, situated as it is in the cloud, is by definition connectable with other products and services in the

Tagged accounting, Business, cloud computing, New Zealand, PayPal, QuickBook, United States, Xero |

May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 6 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

Tagged amazon web services, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, data center, e-commerce, Pat Gelsinger, Puppet Labs, vCloud, vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware, vSphere |

May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Arise the New Public Cloud Platform – Google is for Real

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just spent a few days at the extravaganza which is Google IO. As with previous occasions, this year’s event didn’t fail to blow away the attendees with the sheer amount of “wow” that Google manages to pull out – on so many fronts Google is doing incredible stuff. My

Tagged amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, GCE, General Certificate of Education, google, google app engine, google compute engine |

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

Tagged ALM, amazon web services, Application Lifecycle Management, Business, Business-to-Business, Cloning, cloud computing, CloudShare, CloudShare Labs, e-commerce, Software as a Service, Software development process, Team Foundation Server, Virtual private network |

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.