Tag Archives: IBM

May 10, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Location Based Services Not Just for Consumers – Location as an IT Service Desk Enabler

By Ben Kepes

At Interop this week I sat in a keynote where a Cisco executive explained how their location based technologies are enabling the MGM Grand resort in Las Vegas to have deeply contextualized and personalized interactions with guests in the resort. That got me thinking about location within an enterprise and,

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May 1, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

By Ben Kepes

Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the large cloud players. Quickly we begun to postulate about what a

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April 24, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

OpenStack and The Enterprise Cloud – Not the Usual Suspects

By Ben Kepes

Last week saw me travel very briefly to Portland to attend the analyst day at the OpenStack Summit (disclosure – alongside a posse of my analyst colleagues, the OpenStack foundation covered my T&E to attend the event. I’m also in the process of writing a whitepaper supported by the foundation).

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April 4, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Grizzly Released Today

By Ben Kepes

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading to Portland, Oregon briefly to attend past of the OpenStack summit (disclosures – the OpenStack foundation is supporting my T&E to attend the summit and Diversity Limited is writing a general guide to open source clouds for the foundation) As part of

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March 22, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

CloudStack Graduates to an Apache Top Level Project

By Ben Kepes

Almost a year ago Citrix scored a coup when it’s CloudStack product (which itself was formerly the cloud operating system known as cloud.com) was elevated to the cloud platform of the Apache foundation. It was all the more interesting sine Cloud.com were founding members of OpenStack and the war of

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March 21, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Adobe CTO to Apple–Far More Than What It Appears?

By Ben Kepes

The big news from a few days ago was the fairly momentous bombshell that Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch was resigning from his executive role at Adobe and jumping ship to Apple where he will be filling the role of vice president of technology and reporting directly to Bob Mansfield. Lynch

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March 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Oracle Acquires Nimbula–and by Default Becomes Part of OpenStack (OMFG)

By Ben Kepes

Now this is one for the books, Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired cloud operating system vendor Nimbula who, only last November, announced that it was joining the OpenStack initiative. From the announcement: Oracle announced it has agreed to acquire Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management

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February 20, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Is Cloud A Revolution Or An Evolution?

By Ben Kepes

One of the reasons for setting up the CloudU program and certificate was a desire to scale the one-on-one work I do helping small and large businesses and the people that work within them understand what the cloud actually is. This is made all the more necessary because of the

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February 8, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Dell Boomi Announces New Milestones and Partnerships

By Ben Kepes

Only days after the announcement that Dell was going to return to private ownership, Dell subsidiary Boomi has come out with some news about its integration platform This is really timely given the near universal acknowledgement that software lies at the core of Dell’s future (more on this in a

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December 16, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Fairfax Selling Remaining TradeMe Shares–My Two Cents

By Ben Kepes

Big news in Australasia this weekend was the planned sale of the remaining 51% that Fairfax still holds in TradeMe. Lance Wiggs has been doing the rounds of the media outlets with the view that the move is “absolutely bonkers”. At first look it’s hard to argue with that, until

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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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