Tag Archives: Microsoft

May 8, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Looking Forward to GoogleIO and SuiteWorld

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me continue my US sojourn with stops at NetSuite‘s annual event SuiteWorld and the much-heralded Google developer event, GoogleIO. I’m going to write a compendium post about what I expect to see at these two very different events. Quick disclosure first – as is customary, Google and

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April 23, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Infer Raises $10 Million; Helps Companies Use Data to Win More Customers

By Ben Kepes

Every time we hear about a new company harvesting big data to deliver valuable insights a kitten somewhere dies. Big data, and its related buzzwords, are apparent at every turn. But beyond the over-hyping, there is some real value that the concept of data-powered business applications can generate. Which is

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April 8, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite Smacks SAP and Microsoft–Remains Surprisingly (Or Not) Silent on Oracle

By Ben Kepes

Recently NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson made a number of comments about NetSuite competitors. The comments, part of the company’s Q4 earnings call, were aimed at convincing the marketplace that both SAP and Microsoft have stumbled in their attempts to move to the cloud. In an interview that reflected on the

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March 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Xero Share Price – One Pundit’s Analysis

By Ben Kepes

In recent weeks the share price for listed cloud accounting vendor Xero has risen at an incredibly fast rate. The company, which has around 140000 paying customers globally and is yet to turn a profit, is now valued at close to $1.5B. This is a staggering achievement and something I

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March 14, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Enterprises Moving Away from Microsoft Office–But Will They Continue to Do So?

By Ben Kepes

Recently I was sent a link to some survey results from BetterCloud. BetterCloud is a company making management and security tools for Google Apps – they recently raised $5M in venture funding and have tools deployed across 15000 companies and six million users. Anyway – BetterCloud often runs surveys on

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March 13, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Microsoft’s Azure Outage Post Mortem

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft had one of their worst days and watched as a massive outage took out Azure services globally. The outage lasted about a day and took down a huge number of sites and applications. After a few hours it became apparent that the outage was

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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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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 6, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Good Reading–On What an Enterprise REALLY Needs

By Ben Kepes

Another chance to share an article that provides an alternative view from one you normally read here – in this case an opinion piece from an enterprise CIO on why he doesn’t believe Google is a credible enterprise vendor. Read the entire article here but some relevant quotes below: While

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January 25, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Microsoft’s Cloud OS Play–A Logical Converged Cloud Offering

By Ben Kepes

A week or two ago, Microsoft made a slew of announcements all aimed at creating a consistent story around hybrid cloud services. It’s a compelling product launch, and one which, frankly, takes Microsoft which was only a year or two ago one of the key whipping boys for the cloud

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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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