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March 21, 2013 Posted in Business 5 Comments

EMC, VMware and Pivotal Initiative–A Confusing Triumvirate

By Ben Kepes

I wanted to wait a few weeks before commenting on the worst kept secret in enterprise IT, the fact that VMware and EMC are creating a new entity, Pivotal, that is made up of the cloudy assets from both companies. After spending time ruminating on the new setup, I’m still

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March 6, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

By Ben Kepes

Last year saw the long-expected, and oft-delayed announcement by Google that it was entering the cloud infrastructure market. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a fairly immature (in terms of product breadth) raw infrastructure service that initially at least, seems to be trying to compete with the incumbent, Amazon Web Services,

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August 16, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans

By Ben Kepes

In a couple of weeks I’ll be in San Francisco for VMware annual conference, VMworld. This will actually be my first time attending the even in person and I suspect I’ve chosen the best year to be there – there are some seismic shifts occurring in VMware’s business and I

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July 17, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do

By Ben Kepes

With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely planning to spin off some of its assets into a separate

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April 10, 2008 Posted in IT, Web x.0 Leave a comment

How far we have come…

By Ben Kepes

In a reminder of how far we’ve come in the past decade or so, news this morning that storage company EMC has purchased disk maker Iomega. Yes the same Iomega that made the Zip drive, the once ubiquitous external (and later internal) storage device. Boasting a staggering 100meg of storage

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