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February 4, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

By Ben Kepes

Recently, I moderated a CloudU roundtable that continued an ongoing theme of mine –overcoming the hurdles to greater cloud adoption. In this case we looked deeply at the cloud cost area. This is a really important problem space to resolve. You see, depending on your perspective, the fact that cloud

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October 19, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Barriers To Entry – Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

By Ben Kepes

A theme I’ve been exploring over the past year or so has been the barriers to cloud adoption. Time spent with organizations using cloud has shown me just how valuable a move to the cloud can be – in terms of economics, agility, focus, etc. That being the case, you’d

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September 5, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part Two

By Ben Kepes

In part one of this post I talked about the lack of insight that currently exists over ROI for users of cloud computing. I actually contend that this is an underlying problem for IT generally and not just for cloud. IT departments have traditionally been seen as a cost center

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July 12, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Cloudability Scores Huge Series A

By Ben Kepes

Note – As detailed below, I’m an investor and adviser to Cloudability – disclosure is important so feel free to peruse my disclousre page. It’s exciting times at Cloudability HQ as the team announces an awesome $8.7M Series A round led by the awesome crew from Foundry Group. I first

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December 14, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ControlMyCloud Goes Beta

By Ben Kepes

One of the concerns that many people have when considering a move to the cloud is that of granular control. The last thing an organization wants is to open the flood gates to uncontrolled performance, cost or poor efficiency. Sensible Cloud is trying to deliver on these concerns and is

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October 11, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Being Appointed to the Cloudability Advisory Board

By Ben Kepes

Earlier this year I attended the GigaOm Structure conference and was interested to watch the companies demoing in the startup competition. A couple of us at the event were a little surprised that Cloudability, one of the companies at the event, didn’t score more highly in the competition – their

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June 30, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

By Ben Kepes

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the judges in the Structure Launchpad gave Cloudability – and we both

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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.