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May 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Updates its Cloud Management Software

By Ben Kepes

Just in case anyone didn’t realize it – the future of IT is one where organizations use a wide variety of different solutions – public and private, and spanning different operating systems and application stacks to deliver the individual requirements of end users. The acquisition last week of Enstratius by

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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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December 19, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

It’s Amazing What Smarts Can Do–HP Express Query Astounds Discover Audience

By Ben Kepes

Warning – People know me as a cloud guy, it’s unusual for me to get excited by hardware, but there’s something in this story that goes beyond simple hardware but instead delivers on Marc Andreeson’s now famous proclamation that software is eating the world. Its software differentiated hardware, and it’s

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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

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November 28, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

HP Discover Europe and the Viability of HP’s Cloud Play

By Ben Kepes

I’m heading to Europe for HP’s Discover event and the conference has me thinking about the last Discover event I attended in Las Vegas earlier his year and HP’s awful few weeks around the Autonomy debacle. Alongside my theme du jour of traditional enterprises (and traditional vendors) being disrupted by

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August 7, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

By Ben Kepes

The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product is powered by OpenStack, and combines that with SSD-powered nodes to

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July 5, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Silicon Angle Interview–What’s New and News in the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago I took the opportunity to sit down with Alex Williams, Cloud editor of Silicon Angle, and Stu Miniman from Wikibon, to film a video interview. The interview cam at an interesting time – in the space of 24 hours we’d

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June 25, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP’sCloud Forays – DreamWorks runs on OpenStack Powered Production Kit

By Ben Kepes

At HP Discover (disclosure – HP covered my T&E to attend Discover), almost half of the opening day keynote was given over to DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg to articulate why DreamWorks has gone “all in” with HP. Katzenberg’s presentation was entertaining, and told the usual tails of an industry that

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June 11, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT 6 Comments

I just need a little touch….

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday wasn’t just about Apple and touch for phones, Hewlett Packard also released some cool new products, among them the Touchsmart desktop PC. Check out the demo here. Over on GigaOm Stacey is a little dismissive on touch for full size machines, somehow equating an intuitive UI with being necessary

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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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