Tag Archives: cloudcamp

June 20, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Surveys, and Extrapolating Out to Disruption

By Ben Kepes

The other day a minor storm broke out amongst the clouderati that had its genesis in a post Krishnan wrote looking at who is likely to disrupt AWS (teaser – PaaS from one end and alternative IaaS operating systems from the other). Anyway – the bottom line from the disagreement

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April 10, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

NetSuite Scores Resources Company–This is Big

By Ben Kepes

I spend a lot of time in Australia running CloudCamps that attracts a wide variety of participants – industry, government, startups and education all attend the events. One group that tends to be missing at CloudCamp however, and from the broader cloud discussion, is the large resource related companies.Often these

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September 13, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

ASP Isn’t SaaS. Is It?

By Ben Kepes

A month or so ago I was running a CloudCamp in Australia. As always it was a great event but was made more so by a fascinating exchange between two very different people. On the one hand was Michael Folmer-Hansen from SaaS customer support vendor Zendesk, who was attending his first CloudCamp after Zendesk had [...]

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September 6, 2011 Posted in engineyard 2 Comments

Explaining PaaS

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report – I made an effort to explain the Cloud Computing stack to non-technical, Mom and Pop businesses. As I reflected upon last week, the triangle metaphor is slightly imperfect for describing what the Cloud is. One of the reasons for this is the high degree

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August 23, 2011 Posted in National Institute of Standards and Technology, New Zealand 1 Comment

On Definitions – Keeping it Simple with OSSM

By Ben Kepes
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February 28, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On Traditional Conferences

By Ben Kepes

Why do they still exist? The other day I received a call from someone looking to put on a Cloud Computing conference in New Zealand. Now it’s important, for context’s sake, to know that I’ve run around 10 CloudCamps in New Zealand, all around the country. I’ve blogged on New

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October 10, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite – Sales Success, Keeping the Ecosystem Happy and a Hint of Future Moves

By Ben Kepes

I’m in Sydney en route to a CloudCamp in Canberra and taking in a day of the inaugural NetSuite APAC SuiteCloud event. Over lunch with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, APAC MD Chris Schafer and a bunch of customers and channel partners, I got to talk to people about some interesting

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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.

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