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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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December 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

HP Discover–Awesome Potential But Massive Challenges

By Ben Kepes

I recently spent three days in Frankfurt attending HP’s European event, Discover. (Disclosure – HP contributed towards T&E for the event). Obviously the event was always going to be fascinating, coming as it did only a week or two after the bombshell around Autonomy and the large questions around both

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December 6, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

What Will Identity Look Like in the Future?

By Ben Kepes

At the defrag conference recently, I took part in a few sessions that looks at the broader role of identity in a world were more and more people use cloud-based tools. One of the sessions was led by Pat Patterson, Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce. In his session, Patterson drew

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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

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October 2, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

BoxWorks 2012–Predictions and Prognostications

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me in San Francisco for the annual Box user conference (disclosure – Box is covering my T&E account), it’s an interesting time for the company, only a couple of weeks ago Salesforce stole some of their thunder by announcing a file sync and collaboration tool. BoxWorks is

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September 18, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

With WalkMe Software Vendors Don’t Need to Sweat the UX

By Ben Kepes

I spend a bunch of time working with software startups and am always amazed by how much time they spend sweating every little pixel of their site – much of the reason for this attention is an effort to hone the user experience (UX) to the point where even a

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July 17, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do

By Ben Kepes

With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely planning to spin off some of its assets into a separate

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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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July 5, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Silicon Angle Interview–What’s New and News in the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago I took the opportunity to sit down with Alex Williams, Cloud editor of Silicon Angle, and Stu Miniman from Wikibon, to film a video interview. The interview cam at an interesting time – in the space of 24 hours we’d

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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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