Tag Archives: data center

May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

The Empire Strikes Back – VMware Launches Hybrid Cloud Service

By Ben Kepes

There’s a fair few VMware folks scratching their heads today and wondering when the world changed quite so much. The company today announced its hybrid cloud solution, avialable today on an early access program. GA is slated for Q3 2013. Here’s some details: vCloud Hybrid Service Dedicated Cloud: Provides physically

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May 2, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees my friend Krishnan Subramanian and I put on the Cloud 2020 Summit in Vegas. The summit is an exclusive look at the future of cloud infrastructure – it’s going to bring together pundits, vendors and enterprise buyers to postulate on where the industry is going. We’ve spent

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May 1, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

By Ben Kepes

Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the large cloud players. Quickly we begun to postulate about what a

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April 12, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

OneNet Rolls Out LiveVault Service Provider Tools

By Ben Kepes

Perhaps one of the least sexy, yet most important parts of building a strong service-provider ecosystem is ensuring that all the infrastructure and tools needed for service providers to… provide their service, are in place. OneNet, a cloud vendor based in New Zealand, recently rolled out a series of tools

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April 10, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud 2020 Summit – Apply to Attend Now!

By Ben Kepes

Sometimes in the day to day discussions of product announcements, funding activity and M&A froth we miss the opportunity to take a deep look at what the future looks like. This is especially so in the infrastructure space where some massive shifts (and, yes, some massive buzzwords) are really changing

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February 22, 2013 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Microsoft has Massive Azure Outage-Heads Must Roll!

By Ben Kepes

The screen shot says it all – as I type Microsoft Azure is suffering from an outage, possibly caused by an expired SSL certificate. Services across the globe are completely down with limited visibility into why and when they will be back up. The Azure service dashboard (hosted on AWS

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October 16, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Cloud Portability – On Getting Data Out

By Ben Kepes

Much of the work I do revolves around talking to organizations about how they’ll start their journey to the cloud – discussions around barriers to adoption, dealing with cultural issues and security concerns all typically the main topics of interest. Recently, however, I was pointed in the direction of a

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August 8, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

By Ben Kepes

Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages. I will say that with Cloud Computing outages are more obvious

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July 23, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

Yet another day of massive news with today’s blast coming from VMware who are acquiring Nicira, a five year old veteran of software defined networking (SDN). This follows closely on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps, a heterogeneous cloud management tools and really speaks to VMware’s view on a

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July 2, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Visiting the Switch SuperNAP Facility

By Ben Kepes

While in Las Vegas recently I was invited by Mark Thiele to tour the Switch SuperNAP data center – an invitation I jumped at. Like all guys, I grew up reading stories about soldiers and spies and dreamed of running around in a SWAT team. Entering a facility that has

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