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May 8, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Looking Forward to GoogleIO and SuiteWorld

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me continue my US sojourn with stops at NetSuite‘s annual event SuiteWorld and the much-heralded Google developer event, GoogleIO. I’m going to write a compendium post about what I expect to see at these two very different events. Quick disclosure first – as is customary, Google and

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April 29, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Speaking in Tech Podcast

By Ben Kepes

While I was in the Bay Area recently for Cloud Connect, I took the opportunity to spend half an hour or so recording a podcast with Ed Saipetch from Savvis and Margaret Dawson, newly appointed VP of Marketing and cloud evangelist at HP. We borrowed a hotel suite, cracked open

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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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March 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

By Ben Kepes

We’ve been talking for years about Google offering a storage system to take on the likes of Box and DropBox. It’s an obvious development for the company who arguable has the best economics around data storage on earth. Last year we got an inkling of this direction with the release

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October 14, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudU Webinar Recap: Does Data Want to be Free?

By Ben Kepes

Last week we had the latest CloudU webinar, this time looking at the role of Open Standards in Cloud Computing. I was really excited to be joined on the call by Scott Sanchez, someone who is intimately involved with one of the biggest Cloud Open Standards plays, OpenStack. As well

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June 14, 2011 Posted in Business 9 Comments

On the Battle Lines of PaaS–The Future is Bifurcated

By Ben Kepes

Friend and one-time colleague Krishnan Subramanian posted recently his view of the different ways PaaS products can be differentiated. Very briefly, Krish classed products in three distinct categories; Traditional PaaS models (push your app to the PaaS and all the underlying stuff is taken care of). Examples – Heroku, Google

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June 3, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Google app engine pricing

By Ben Kepes

Google has finally opened App Engine to the public and released pricing information. In a case of “following the leader”, Google’s pricing closely follows that of Amazon’s; Google App Engine Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month $0.10

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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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