Tag Archives: Frankfurt

February 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Future of Organizations, The Future of Technology

By Ben Kepes

While attending HP’s Discover event (disclosure – HP covered some of my expenses for attending the event) in Frankfurt in December I was invited to take part in an interview alongside fellow Antipodean Paul Muller. The interview started off with Paul Muller explaining what he does in terms of looking

Tagged BigData, Business, Frankfurt, Future, Information technology, London, Machine learning, Technology |

December 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

HP Discover–Awesome Potential But Massive Challenges

By Ben Kepes

I recently spent three days in Frankfurt attending HP’s European event, Discover. (Disclosure – HP contributed towards T&E for the event). Obviously the event was always going to be fascinating, coming as it did only a week or two after the bombshell around Autonomy and the large questions around both

Tagged autonomy, Frankfurt, hewlett packard, Meg Whitman, Microsoft, Vertica |

December 5, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

By Ben Kepes

At HP’s Discover event here in Frankfurt today, the company will be announcing a private PaaS offering, built on top of Stackato, the PaaS which is itself a fork of the open source Cloud Foundry initiative. HP has entered into an agreement with ActiveState, the company behind Stackato, to OEM

Tagged ActiveState, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Frankfurt, PHP, platform services, VMware |

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.