Tag Archives: Krishnan Subramanian

May 2, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees my friend Krishnan Subramanian and I put on the Cloud 2020 Summit in Vegas. The summit is an exclusive look at the future of cloud infrastructure – it’s going to bring together pundits, vendors and enterprise buyers to postulate on where the industry is going. We’ve spent

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April 10, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud 2020 Summit – Apply to Attend Now!

By Ben Kepes

Sometimes in the day to day discussions of product announcements, funding activity and M&A froth we miss the opportunity to take a deep look at what the future looks like. This is especially so in the infrastructure space where some massive shifts (and, yes, some massive buzzwords) are really changing

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February 27, 2013 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Tensions in the Cloud Foundry Camp–On the Problems with Forks

By Ben Kepes

Let there be no doubt, open source projects are hard. Balancing central control while still allowing individual members a degree of autonomy is like walking a tightrope – too much control and it looks like a dictatorship, too little and the initiative risks spiraling out of control in the face

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January 10, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators – Part One

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take the time to report the two part interview – it’s long

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October 26, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Open Discussions On Open Cloud

By Ben Kepes

As I go from conference to conference, I’m seeing more and more examples of people talking about the “open cloud.” Proponents talk about choice, flexibility and the inherent safety of the open cloud. Opponents, on the other hand, point to fragmentation, immaturity and concerns about anything that is available without

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October 3, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Open Source Cloud Adoption

By Ben Kepes

Last week Lydia Leong from Gartner published an analyst report with some opinions on Open Stack. I’ve been critical in the past about traditional analyst firms and I’ve also gone on record as being positive about open source (and, for full disclosure, the CloudU program I run is sponsored by

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September 4, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Diversity Analysis Becomes Diversity Limited–What’s In a Name?

By Ben Kepes

For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how best to describe what I “do”. I run Diversity, a pretty diverse (hence the name) operation which covers a bunch of different things – I spend time evangelizing about Cloud Computing, I opine on the technology landscape, I consult to large technology

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August 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A Conversation on Open Cloud–Google+ Hangout

By Ben Kepes

The discussion around open versus closed in the cloud is reaching fever pitch but what does it all mean? Many people have but the loosest understanding of what open cloud means and the differences between open source, open clouds and federated clouds. I’m in the process of writing a paper

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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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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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