Tag Archives: Open source

April 14, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Rackspace Taps Third party Service Providers to Build Out International Presence

By Ben Kepes

Rackspace (disclosure – Rackspace supported the creation of the CloudU education program I formerly ran) is a little bit like the little engine that could. It’s continually fighting the perception (and, to be frank, the reality) that it’s the very poor cousin to the AWS steamroller. As such it needs

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April 4, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Grizzly Released Today

By Ben Kepes

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading to Portland, Oregon briefly to attend past of the OpenStack summit (disclosures – the OpenStack foundation is supporting my T&E to attend the summit and Diversity Limited is writing a general guide to open source clouds for the foundation) As part of

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March 20, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Hadoop Going Wild–Funding for MapR and Concurrent, Support on Azure

By Ben Kepes

The world’s love affair with Hadoop seems to be continuing  apace. Both in a funding for startups way and a support from big vendors way. On the funding side, yesterday it was MapR, the Hadoop company pushing a couple of different Hadoop distributions that was announcing a $30M VC round,

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March 8, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Future is Coming in a Physical Form Near You

By Ben Kepes

An amazing thing happened at South by Southwest (SXSW) today. Whereas in the past the overwhelming focus has been on the consumer world (SXSW is where both twitter and Foursquare first “broke out”) the event seems to be changing focus with enterprise and the physical world starting to garner attention.

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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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February 11, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ComodIT–IT Automation as a Service

By Ben Kepes

I’m always interested to speak with companies trying to build innovative solutions outside of the US. Despite living away from the epicenter of technology myself, all to often I find myself displaying a Valley-centric perspective on companies and the solutions they bring to market. It’s good for all of us

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December 27, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Guest Post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS – Part III – Business Services

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and accepted his offer since I see a lot of value in

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December 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Guest post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS. Part II – Developer & Platform Services

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and accepted his offer since I see a lot of value in

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November 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Apache releases CloudStack 4.0 Incubating Release

By Ben Kepes

Open Source projects are great at encouraging chest thumping and misty eyes, but the really exciting thing about them is when they start to actually come to life – as in ship real products that can be used. Linux was an exciting idea when it was Linus Torvalds’ project at

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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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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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