Tag Archives: Information technology management

January 28, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future

By Ben Kepes

News recently that VMware, fresh from spinning out most of its developer focused non-virtualization assets in the Pivotal Initiative, has put a huge $30M finding into Puppet Labs. As part of the deal, VMware and Puppet will team up to produce a new IT management solution for VMware customers to use that leverages the automation [...]

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September 4, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

By Ben Kepes

In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a guest post from Jinesh Varia from AWS who correctly pointed out some of the difficulties around calculating

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June 8, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Forecast 2012–Enterprise Cloud Best Practices Panel

By Ben Kepes

Mid June will see me winging my way to New York City to attend Forecast 2012, a one day event arranged by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA). Forecast is touted as an opportunity to share knowledge and expertise through presentations, technical workgroups and the all important networking opportunities. I’ll

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May 9, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zyrion Launches Predictive Analytics for IT Monitoring

By Ben Kepes

Seemingly every day another vendor launches a service that promises to revolutionize the way they monitor their IT infrastructure. Generally these launches comply with all the buzzword – cloud, big data, predictive analytics etc. While I’ve no doubt that IT infrastructure monitoring is vitally important, it seems that vendors, in

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January 31, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

BMC Heads Down the Foodchain and To The Cloud with Numara Acquisition

By Ben Kepes

BMC Software yesterday announced the acquisition of mid-market IT management provider Numara Software. It’s an interesting move for this decidedly enterprise-level provider and one that sees them make two distinct moves – firstly into the cloud in a big way and secondly down the food chain o offer a mid-market

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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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