Tag Archives: cloud computing

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 |

May 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Business Value of Private PaaS

By Ben Kepes

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of being involved with the second DeployCon event. DeployCon is an event that explores Platform as a Service and its place in the technology landscape going forwards. As part of the event I had the pleasure of moderating a panel which

Tagged ActiveState, Apprenda, cloud computing, CloudConnect, DeployCon, platform services, Sinclair Schuller, Software as a Service |

May 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Updates its Cloud Management Software

By Ben Kepes

Just in case anyone didn’t realize it – the future of IT is one where organizations use a wide variety of different solutions – public and private, and spanning different operating systems and application stacks to deliver the individual requirements of end users. The acquisition last week of Enstratius by

Tagged cloud computing, Converged Cloud, Dell, Gillai, hewlett packard, IT service management, OpenStack, Saar Gillai |

May 6, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Nasty Truth Around Public Cloud Ecosystems

By Ben Kepes

Recently there have been a few high-profile examples of small cloud providers turning off support for one or another public clouds. First came AppFog who made the mysterious decision to cut off all support for their PaaS running on Rackspace infrastructure. Only a few days later Xeround announced that they

Tagged cloud computing, google, Google Reader, Mongolia, OfficeDrop, rackspace, ReadWrite, Xeround |

May 3, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

By Ben Kepes

If there is one thing that gets enterprise folks riled up, it’s those sitting in the gallery talking about cloud bursting and application portability in general. To the excited blog posts announcing the latest solution to the application portability problem come howls of derision claiming that it’s all a pipe

Tagged AppZero, cloud computing, Greg O'Connor, Microsoft Windows, Portable application, Servers, Virtual application, Virtual machine |

May 2, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees my friend Krishnan Subramanian and I put on the Cloud 2020 Summit in Vegas. The summit is an exclusive look at the future of cloud infrastructure – it’s going to bring together pundits, vendors and enterprise buyers to postulate on where the industry is going. We’ve spent

Tagged #cloud2020, Cloud 2020 Summit, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, data center, DevOps, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, Rodrigo Flores |

April 29, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Speaking in Tech Podcast

By Ben Kepes

While I was in the Bay Area recently for Cloud Connect, I took the opportunity to spend half an hour or so recording a podcast with Ed Saipetch from Savvis and Margaret Dawson, newly appointed VP of Marketing and cloud evangelist at HP. We borrowed a hotel suite, cracked open

Tagged cloud computing, CloudConnect, google app engine, hewlett packard, Margaret Dawson, platform services, San Francisco Bay Area, Savvis |

April 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Breaking – AppFog Switches off the Rackspace Cloud

By Ben Kepes

AppFog customers received an email today advising them that the PaaS company will no longer support applications hosted on Rackspace infrastructures (screen grab below). We’ve been hearing through the back channel for quite some time that AppFog has been struggling to gain marketshare and revenue. Despite some high profile funding,

Tagged amazon web services, AppFog, cloud computing, online communities, OpenStack, Platform as a service, rackspace, VMware |

April 24, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

OpenStack and The Enterprise Cloud – Not the Usual Suspects

By Ben Kepes

Last week saw me travel very briefly to Portland to attend the analyst day at the OpenStack Summit (disclosure – alongside a posse of my analyst colleagues, the OpenStack foundation covered my T&E to attend the event. I’m also in the process of writing a whitepaper supported by the foundation).

Tagged amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, IBM, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, rackspace, VMware |

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

Tagged amazon-web-service, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, e-commerce, Information technology, Multi-core processor, Opscode |

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.