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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

Tagged amazon web services, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, data center, e-commerce, Pat Gelsinger, Puppet Labs, vCloud, vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware, vSphere |

May 16, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Enterprise Development and Testing Agility with CloudShare

By Ben Kepes

One of the big value propositions for cloud infrastructure is that in greatly reduces the hurdles that developers face when setting up environments for development and testing purposes. There are two issues that often get in the way of this process – the demand for limited physical resources, and the

Tagged ALM, amazon web services, Application Lifecycle Management, Business, Business-to-Business, Cloning, cloud computing, CloudShare, CloudShare Labs, e-commerce, Software as a Service, Software development process, Team Foundation Server, Virtual private network |

April 22, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Want an Irrefutable Example of the Value of Cloud? Here Goes

By Ben Kepes

While the pundits debate the minutiae of cloud computing, and spend hours in detailed and complex arguments of what should and shouldn’t be moved to the cloud, other people are simply going out and doing stuff on the cloud that would previously have been almost impossible. It’s always nice to

Tagged amazon-web-service, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, e-commerce, Information technology, Multi-core processor, Opscode |

April 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

NetSuite and eWinery Toast a Specific Solution for the Wine Industry

By Ben Kepes

Living as I do smack bang in the middle of a wine producing region, I’m always interested to see smart software being applied to the viticulture industry. Primary product is a very honest industry, but when that primary production is all about selling a product that is often differentiated on

Tagged Customer relationship management, e-commerce, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, Point of Sale, Solution, United States, VinSuite |

April 14, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Rackspace Taps Third party Service Providers to Build Out International Presence

By Ben Kepes

Rackspace (disclosure – Rackspace supported the creation of the CloudU education program I formerly ran) is a little bit like the little engine that could. It’s continually fighting the perception (and, to be frank, the reality) that it’s the very poor cousin to the AWS steamroller. As such it needs

Tagged amazon, amazon web services, AWS, Business, cloud computing, Customer, e-commerce, Lanham Napier, Open source, OpenStack, rackspace |

February 20, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Is Cloud A Revolution Or An Evolution?

By Ben Kepes

One of the reasons for setting up the CloudU program and certificate was a desire to scale the one-on-one work I do helping small and large businesses and the people that work within them understand what the cloud actually is. This is made all the more necessary because of the

Tagged Application programming interface, Business, cloud computing, e-commerce, IBM, Microsoft, United States, ZDNet |

December 18, 2012 Posted in Business 8 Comments

Drivers for Cloud Adoption–CIO Research

By Ben Kepes

Interesting survey results just released that indicate cost isn’t the highest factor in cloud adoption (yay – at last people are talking more about non-cost impacts of cloud) – Respondents believe compliance requirements, value and competitive advantage are the key drivers for cloud adoption. The survey was conducted by Dimensional

Tagged Application programming interface, Business, Business-to-Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, e-commerce, Software as a Service, Technical support |

December 7, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Book Review: ‘Cloudonomics: The Business Value Of Cloud Computing’

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

Tagged Ben Kepes, Business, Business Value of Cloud Computing, cloud computing, cloudonomics, e-commerce, economics, Joe Weinman, Weinman |

October 8, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Rethinking IT As An Enabler, Not A Blocker

By Ben Kepes

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October 4, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Upcoming Event – The Cloud – IT evolution or business revolution?

By Ben Kepes

In a couple of weeks I’ll be in Auckland as a guest of Provoke. They’ve asked me to come up and take part in a session entitled “The Cloud – IT Evolution or Business Revolution”. It’s a topic near to my heart – we’ve all heard people banging on about

Tagged Application programming interface, asp, Auckland, Business model, cloud computing, e-commerce, Information technology, Silicon Valley |

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.