Tag Archives: George Reese

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

Tagged amazon web services, AWS, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enStratus, George Reese, NetworkWorld |

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,

Tagged Application programming interface, chef, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, Intel, OpenStack, Opscode |

April 17, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

By Ben Kepes

Looking past the politics of whose Cloud stack is the best for a moment, the undeniably truth remains that no matter what you use, tools to help deploy and automate said cloud are becoming increasingly critical – this is even more the case in an ecosystem that is becoming ever

Tagged Dell, George Reese, Morphlabs, OpenStack, Opscode, puppet, Puppet Labs, Winston Damarillo |

November 3, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

enStratus–Big Names, Big Money

By Ben Kepes

News yesterday that cloud governance and management vendor enStratus (more on them here) has raised a cool $4.5M in a funding round that includes El Dorado ventures. The SEC filing is for an initial $3.5M but reliable sources tell me the balance of $1M is going to come soon. The news

Tagged Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, James Urquhart, John Willis, OpenStack |

September 27, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloupia and Cloud Management

By Ben Kepes

A few nights ago I was called by a London based investment house to talk about cloud management solutions and whether the space had potential. I have to admit my jaw dropped a little that any investment house specializing in technology companies would need to ask that question – all

Tagged automation, cloudcomputing, Cloupia, data center, enStratus, George Reese, OpenStack |

September 23, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday OpenStack (disclosure, RackSpace, one of the originators of the OpenStack project, is sponsoring CloudU, an education program that I’m curating) rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed “Diablo”. Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally answering those who say it isn’t yet ready for real world

Tagged amazon web services, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, opensource, OpenStack, rackspace, RightScale |

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.