Tag Archives: enStratus

March 29, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Information Silos and Fracturing the Enterprise Brain

By Ben Kepes

Those of us who advocate for a move to the cloud often talk of cloud applications ending enterprise silos – the malaise where different data is stored in lots of different applications and where different departments don’t use any pan-organizational system to communicate and collaborate. The theory goes that by

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February 11, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ComodIT–IT Automation as a Service

By Ben Kepes

I’m always interested to speak with companies trying to build innovative solutions outside of the US. Despite living away from the epicenter of technology myself, all to often I find myself displaying a Valley-centric perspective on companies and the solutions they bring to market. It’s good for all of us

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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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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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August 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Appcara Delivers Cloud Infra and App Management for AWS Based Clouds

By Ben Kepes

Appcara is an unfortunately named (considering the fact that Cloud Foundry creator, and Clouderati pin up boy Derek Collison’s new gig is called Apcera) company in the business of providing automation for cloud deployments. They use a modeling based approach towards designing and deploying cloud infrastructure. Appcara today announced an

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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 3, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Future Ain’t Homogenized–Please Stop the FUD Vendors

By Ben Kepes

In recent weeks we’ve had perfect examples of people preaching perspectives from both ends of the cloud dogma spectrum. First up comes JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist at Salesforce who proclaimed that the concept of private cloud was essentially flawed. In discussing the term Rangaswami contended that private cloud doesn’t deliver

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June 28, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis

By Ben Kepes

At GoogleIO today, Google announced the limited launch of its Infrastructure as a Service product, Google Compute Engine. This comes as no surprise, the move has been rumored for months and Google does undeniably have some of the largest scale infrastructure on earth alongside the smarts to run it amazingly

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June 27, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode

By Ben Kepes

The battle royal that is being played out between the different Cloud “operating systems” reached new heights at Structure last week. While all of us are talking about this stuff however, vendors and customers alike are simply trying to get going with these tools. They’re not focused on idealogical battles,

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April 20, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Big Opportunities in the Cloud

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-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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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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