Tag Archives: Microsoft Azure

March 12, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Egnyte Opens Up File Sharing Across Multiple Cloud Vendors

By Ben Kepes

From the “this is an interesting little ploy that makes a difference” files, Egnyte is today launching a new piece of functionality that allows customers to access and share files on the Egnyte platform, but actually phsically being sited across multiple clou dproviders – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft

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February 22, 2013 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Microsoft has Massive Azure Outage-Heads Must Roll!

By Ben Kepes

The screen shot says it all – as I type Microsoft Azure is suffering from an outage, possibly caused by an expired SSL certificate. Services across the globe are completely down with limited visibility into why and when they will be back up. The Azure service dashboard (hosted on AWS

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August 27, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Another Answer for a Safe Hybrid Dropbox-like Solution–MagFS Launches

By Ben Kepes

Two things most enterprise IT folks agree on are that Dropbox is a risky proposition for sensitive enterprise data and that employees are demanding solutions with a “Dropbox-like” functional spec. It’s a big area of opportunity and one that companies like Egnyte and Oxygen Cloud have spent time addressing –

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July 10, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Microsoft Offers Hosts Another Cloud to Chose From–White Labels Azure

By Ben Kepes

Microsoft this week announced a new program that will allow hosting service providers to use existing data centers to deliver a white-label version of Azure. This is a progression from the announcement last month that Microsoft was giving developers the ability to achieve symmetry between public and private PaaS with

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June 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Numerix and Greenbutton and High Performance Cloud for the Financial Industry

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Greenbutton, that time using them as an example of a cloud computing delivering compelling benefits to customers – their focus at that time was evangelizing their plug in for video rendering that allowed users of desktop rendering software to have workloads processed in the cloud. As

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June 6, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Apprenda and Appfog Power Hybrid .NET

By Ben Kepes

I’ve always had a soft spot for .NET PaaS provider Apprenda, they were one of the very first PaaS providers, their CEO Sinclair Schuller is a thought leader around PaaS and Cloud more generally and they display a laser focus on sticking to their core business – delivering the best

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July 19, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Greenbutton Nabs Microsoft, Swiftpoint Nabs Costco

By Ben Kepes

I always like to be able to write about the successes of businesses down in my neck of the woods and today I’ve got a couple of stories to write about. Firstly GreenButton, the company that I’ve called “the perfect cloud case study” nabbed USD1M in funding from non other

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April 26, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Head of Microsoft Azure Calls Out Greenbutton. The Perfect Cloud Case Study?

By Ben Kepes

A month or two ago I ran a CloudCamp in Wellington which was preceded by a presentation by a local company there, Greenbutton. The Greenbutton offering is , or at least should be, something of a poster child for a move to the cloud. Greenbutton leverages cloud processing to drive

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September 14, 2010 Posted in Business, Governance, IT, The Cloud Leave a comment

AdaptiveComputing Scores A Round – VC’s Back in Force

By Ben Kepes

I vaguely remember some time a year or so ago when VC funding of companies slowed down a little. It seems that little dip has well and truly passed – every week I’m receiving many email detailing another funding round. This morning it was the turn of StorSimple, now AdaptiveComputing

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