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June 5, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Heroku Rolls out Support for JavaScript within PostGres

By Ben Kepes

There’s always battles waging in the technology community – Linux vs Windows, OpenStack vs AWS, DevOps vs NoOps vs SomeOtherKindOfOps. Another oft visited argument is the relation versus non-relational databases. Essentially the protagonists for the NoSQL movement suggest that relational databases are too slow, and don’t map well to complex

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May 28, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Risk of Knee Jerk Comments and The Perils of Google Drive (Or Not)

By Ben Kepes

As someone who has had more than his fair share of annoying people due to ill-advised and off-the-cuff remarks, a post I read recently on PandoDaily made me wince. Now I have to say that I absolutely love PandoDaily – founder Sarah Lacey is doing amazing work, has amassed an

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May 21, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Arise the New Public Cloud Platform – Google is for Real

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just spent a few days at the extravaganza which is Google IO. As with previous occasions, this year’s event didn’t fail to blow away the attendees with the sheer amount of “wow” that Google manages to pull out – on so many fronts Google is doing incredible stuff. My

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May 9, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Facebook and the OCP Signal a Big Problem for Traditional Networking Vendors

By Ben Kepes

One of the more interesting keynotes at Interop cam from Frank Frankovsky, the guy who is not only in charge of Facebook‘s infrastructure, but also heads up the Open Compute Project, an initiative that was originally started by Facebook but now has real cross-party steam behind it. The Open Compute

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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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May 6, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Nasty Truth Around Public Cloud Ecosystems

By Ben Kepes

Recently there have been a few high-profile examples of small cloud providers turning off support for one or another public clouds. First came AppFog who made the mysterious decision to cut off all support for their PaaS running on Rackspace infrastructure. Only a few days later Xeround announced that they

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April 23, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Infer Raises $10 Million; Helps Companies Use Data to Win More Customers

By Ben Kepes

Every time we hear about a new company harvesting big data to deliver valuable insights a kitten somewhere dies. Big data, and its related buzzwords, are apparent at every turn. But beyond the over-hyping, there is some real value that the concept of data-powered business applications can generate. Which is

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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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March 17, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

DropBox Buys Mailbox – MyPOV

By Ben Kepes

Colleague Krishnan Subramanian wrote a post a couple of days ago suggesting that the acquisition of email application Mailbox by collaboration and synchronization vendor Dropbox was some kind of “hail Mary pass” that aims to give them an answer to the deep integration between Google Drive and Gmail. As he

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March 14, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Enterprises Moving Away from Microsoft Office–But Will They Continue to Do So?

By Ben Kepes

Recently I was sent a link to some survey results from BetterCloud. BetterCloud is a company making management and security tools for Google Apps – they recently raised $5M in venture funding and have tools deployed across 15000 companies and six million users. Anyway – BetterCloud often runs surveys on

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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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