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November 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloudability Goes GA, Launches Pro Offering

By Ben Kepes

As I’m winging my way to the family reunion that is Defrag, Cloudability, a company I was a very early advisor and investor in, is announcing their product is coming out of beta and going General Availability. This is a proud moment for me – I first met Mat, JR

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July 17, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do

By Ben Kepes

With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely planning to spin off some of its assets into a separate

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March 30, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Clarifying the Acronyms – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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June 30, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

By Ben Kepes

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the judges in the Structure Launchpad gave Cloudability – and we both

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June 9, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Standing Cloud–Building an Intermediate Layer for the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While in Colorado I took the opportunity to spend some time with Standing Cloud – a vendor that provides an abstraction layer sitting on top of infrastructure offerings that helps cloud users deploy, manage, customize and develop applications on different IaaS offerings with different programming languages. The service currently supports

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February 14, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

SpotCloud Launches–A True Utility Model Cometh

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long said that Cloud Computing will see us enter a paradigm where computing is considered a utility – much like water and electricity. If you accept this contention, then there is one reasonably glaring lack in he ecosystem,especially for large utilities who sell their service at an incremental rate.

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February 11, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

MemBase and CouchOne and What it Means for Cloud Sartups

By Ben Kepes

Focus.com Cloud RoundtableLast week marked the merger between Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne, associated companies producing NoSQL products. It’s a logical combination as it creates an end-to-end NoSQL solution. But more than that it’s an indication of something I’ve been noticing at the lower end of the Cloud Computing stack.

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July 1, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Intalio Introduces Something New – Cloud Computing

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time recently talking with Ismael Ghalimi – CEO of Intalio. Intalio has been around for a number of years but has been something of a quiet performer – Ghalimi wishes to change this with the new Intalio product range. From their website, Intalio is a company that:

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October 12, 2009 Posted in Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud 5 Comments

Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

By Ben Kepes

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all

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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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