Tag Archives: Las Vegas

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

Tagged #cloud2020, amazon web services, cloud computing, data center, Krishnan Subramanian, Las Vegas, OpenStack, Rishidot Research, VMware |

November 27, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Re:Invent Announcements–Boundary Introduces Pre-Emptive Monitoring

By Ben Kepes

This week marks the first Amazon Web Services user conference. The AWS event, re:Invent, is being held in Las Vegas and given the massive awareness that AWS and its ecosystem has, we should see lots of product announcements from both Amazon themselves and ecosystem companies. First up is Boundary who

Tagged amazon, amazon web services, AWS, Boundary, cloud computing, Las Vegas, Microsoft, Puppet Labs |

October 31, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Actual Cloud – The One To Chose

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-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

Tagged Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Las Vegas, Mark Thiele, Om Malik, Organization, twitter |

July 2, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Visiting the Switch SuperNAP Facility

By Ben Kepes

While in Las Vegas recently I was invited by Mark Thiele to tour the Switch SuperNAP data center – an invitation I jumped at. Like all guys, I grew up reading stories about soldiers and spies and dreamed of running around in a SWAT team. Entering a facility that has

Tagged data center, Enron, HVAC, Las Vegas, Nevada, SuperNAP, SWAT, Switch Communications |

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.