Tag Archives: Cloud storage

March 29, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Information Silos and Fracturing the Enterprise Brain

By Ben Kepes

Those of us who advocate for a move to the cloud often talk of cloud applications ending enterprise silos – the malaise where different data is stored in lots of different applications and where different departments don’t use any pan-organizational system to communicate and collaborate. The theory goes that by

Tagged cloud computing, Cloud storage, Collaboration, dropbox, enStratus, google, Huddle, project management, ReadWrite, RightScale, yammer |

March 19, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

GreenQloud Looks to Both Deepen and Broaden Service–Internationalization and QloudSync

By Ben Kepes

One of the emergent tends I’m seeing with technology vendors is a move towards offering more long-tail solutions. As pure infrastructure becomes more and more commoditized, vendors are looking for ways to differentiate themselves, one of the most effective ways is to offer specific solutions tailored to a particular customer

Tagged cloud computing, Cloud storage, dropbox, GreenQLoud, Iceland, MegaUpload, Patriot Act, QloudSync |

March 12, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Egnyte Opens Up File Sharing Across Multiple Cloud Vendors

By Ben Kepes

From the “this is an interesting little ploy that makes a difference” files, Egnyte is today launching a new piece of functionality that allows customers to access and share files on the Egnyte platform, but actually phsically being sited across multiple clou dproviders – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft

Tagged Amazon S3, Cloud storage, dropbox, Egnyte, Filesharing, google, Microsoft Azure, NetApp |

February 18, 2013 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis

By Ben Kepes

Recently I attended Webstock, a conference in Wellington, New Zealand that is well known for bringing together technology, design and general brain stimulation. It was a great event, with some awesome speakers but one presentation, by Jason Scott, part of an activist preservationist group Archive Team, kind of stuck in

Tagged Archive Team, christchurch, cloud computing, Cloud storage, GeoCities, Internet Archive, webstock, Wellington |

January 21, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Sure Dropbox is Potentially Insecure, but Does it Matter?

By Ben Kepes

It’s summertime down in my neck of the woods and that’s a good time to go out on a limb with a statement that might get people a little fired up. Bear with me on this one though… Over on GigaOm Barb Darrow has a good write up about the

Tagged Cloud storage, Data loss, dropbox, iPad, iphone, Nasuni, Om Malik, Shadow IT |

November 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

By Ben Kepes

On a daily basis I get press releases from companies offering to be the “Dropbox for the Enterprise”, these companies are treading the well worn path of leveraging the well recognized name of a player in order to get their point across. Perhaps in an indication of the market success

Tagged Cloud storage, Data Loss Prevention, dropbox, Egnyte, Encryption, FileLocker, Ken Shaw, security, SSL, Star Trek: Enterprise, venturebeat |

November 5, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

TwinStrata CloudArray Now Supports NAS for Heterogeneous Storage Management

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written previously about TwinStrata – a company whose CloudArray storage gateway is designed to enable organizations to deploy cloud SANs which combine public and private cloud storage providers along with their existing storage infrastructure. It’s a logical play – while pure cloud may be the holy grail and the

Tagged cloud computing, Cloud storage, CloudArray, Computer data storage, IBM, ISCSI, Server Message Block, TwinStrata |

August 27, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Another Answer for a Safe Hybrid Dropbox-like Solution–MagFS Launches

By Ben Kepes

Two things most enterprise IT folks agree on are that Dropbox is a risky proposition for sensitive enterprise data and that employees are demanding solutions with a “Dropbox-like” functional spec. It’s a big area of opportunity and one that companies like Egnyte and Oxygen Cloud have spent time addressing –

Tagged Amazon S3, cloud computing, Cloud storage, dropbox, EMC Atmos, Microsoft Azure, VMware, VMworld |

August 22, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Amazon Delivers Glacier for Archival Storage

By Ben Kepes

News a couple of days ago that Amazon Web Services is adding AWS Glacier to it’s product catalog. AWS is designed for one thing only – long term archival of data that isn’t routinely accessed. I’s not speed optimized but what it is, is price optimized. From AWS’s blurb; Amazon

Tagged amazon, Amazon Glacier, amazon web services, Archive, AWS, Cloud storage, FedEx, Glacier |

July 31, 2012 Posted in Business 12 Comments

Dropbox Security Issues–IT has itself to Blame

By Ben Kepes

So Dropbox, the file sharing, backup and sync service that has been setting the world on fire, seems to have had some serious problems of late. It seems a large number of users have received spam e-mails and, in response, Dropbox has bought in a SWAT team of security experts

Tagged cloud computing, Cloud storage, dropbox, Email address, security, syncplicity, twitter, User (computing) |

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.