Tag Archives: Cloud Foundry

February 7, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Appsecute Launches a DevOps Focused Social Stream

By Ben Kepes

Exciting times at Appsecute at the moment as the team begins to unveil its new vision for the company. When the company first started (and, for anyone not aware of the fact, I’m an investor and board member) our vision was to provide a single place to manage all the

Tagged appsecute, Cloud Foundry, DevOps, GitHub, Heroku, Israel, Platform as a service, zendesk |

January 11, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators, Part Two

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take the time to report the two part interview – it’s long

Tagged amazon web services, Application programming interface, Cloud Foundry, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, OpenStack, Platform as a service, RightScale |

December 4, 2012 Posted in Business 10 Comments

On Angel Investing–and Karma

By Ben Kepes

This technology lark has been pretty good to me – in the past handful of years since deciding on this path I’ve met some incredible people, journeyed far and wide and enjoyed the financial rewards that are particular to this industry. One thing that always troubled me a little however

Tagged Andy Rachleff, angel investor, Cloud Foundry, Investment, New Zealand, Steve Orenstein, TechStars, Venture capital |

January 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services

By Ben Kepes

With the multitude of PaaS vendors that now exist, most providing an all-things-to-all-people polyglot solution that is (in my view at least) largely undifferentiated from their competitors, there is an increasing focus on vendors making partnerships that allows them to build both mindshare and market penetration. The latest is ActiveState

Tagged ActiveState, Cloud Foundry, Cloudfoundry, HP Cloud Service, OpenStack, PaaS, Perl, PHP, Python, stackato |

April 28, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Layer 7 and Cloud Redundancy Through Brokerage

By Ben Kepes

After the recent AWS outage – much attention has been given to the need for cloud users to create redundancies across zones, data centers, regions and even providers. All of which sounds fine in theory, but gets a little tricky in practice. Skip a few days and, coincidentally, I was

Tagged amazon web services, Application Layer, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloud Foundry, Layer7, OpenStack, Savvis, VMware |

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.