Tag Archives: cloudcomputing

February 28, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

By Ben Kepes

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of the princely $10M funding round the company had just raised. As

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February 26, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

By Ben Kepes

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent release of Cloud Foundry, and the significant uptake it has had

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February 21, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

FinancialForce on a Tear

By Ben Kepes

When salesforce.com invested in FinancialForce a few years ago, there was keen interest in how this would help the company grow. There’s never been much clarity around those numbers since the parent company of FinancialForce, Unit4, doesn’t break out the individual numbers of operating divisions. That is a bit clearer now since

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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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January 17, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

By Ben Kepes

People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set up. A plethora of enterprise vendors have got their start in

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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

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January 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

By Ben Kepes

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and Heroku was creating a real gravity pull for developers and that

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November 19, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Australian Startups Sentinus Aims to “Clean Up the Cloud”

By Ben Kepes

Security is often identified as one of the barriers to wider cloud adoption. Even though it is often counter to reality, there is significant doubt in many organization’s minds about the relative security of cloud as opposed to their traditional on-premise cloud. As I said this is often an irrational

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November 9, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from VentureBeat My background and entry into the technology industry came from my experience wrangling tech for a number of different small and mid-sized businesses. I’ve seen first hand just how much work is involved in tailoring discrete solutions into something that actually meets the specific needs of

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October 30, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Abiquo Gears up to Manage Heterogeneous Clouds, Survey Shows It’s Needed

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about infrastructure management vendor Abiquo – they’re a company trying hard to build awareness in a space that is insanely busy – from the large companies like VMware and their enterprise pulling power, to more lauded small players like enStratus. As part of this push to become

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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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