Tag Archives: opensource

October 26, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Open Discussions On Open Cloud

By Ben Kepes

As I go from conference to conference, I’m seeing more and more examples of people talking about the “open cloud.” Proponents talk about choice, flexibility and the inherent safety of the open cloud. Opponents, on the other hand, point to fragmentation, immaturity and concerns about anything that is available without

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October 4, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

If Developers are the new Kingmakers–Salesforce is Starting to Own the Castle

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been attending Salesforce’s user conference now for a few years and one thing that’s always been a little awkward is the fact that Salesforce has always tried to make the event meaningful for developers but has generally created a kind of Frankenstein beast where suited business types get highbrow

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September 21, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Future of the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While in Portland for OSCON a few months ago, I was invited to take part in an open discussion with a couple of colleagues, Krishnan Subramanian and Alex Williams. The idea of the session was to have a free ranging discussion about the future of the cloud – the three

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August 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A Conversation on Open Cloud–Google+ Hangout

By Ben Kepes

The discussion around open versus closed in the cloud is reaching fever pitch but what does it all mean? Many people have but the loosest understanding of what open cloud means and the differences between open source, open clouds and federated clouds. I’m in the process of writing a paper

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July 10, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ActiveState Lanches Stackato 2.0

By Ben Kepes

ActiveState (see coverage here), is today announcing the general availability of version 2 of Stackato, their private PaaS designed for enterprise customers. By way of introductions, over the 15 or so years it has existed, ActiveState have focused on understanding three things deeply; Developers, Enterprises and OpenSource technologies. I spent

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June 25, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP’sCloud Forays – DreamWorks runs on OpenStack Powered Production Kit

By Ben Kepes

At HP Discover (disclosure – HP covered my T&E to attend Discover), almost half of the opening day keynote was given over to DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg to articulate why DreamWorks has gone “all in” with HP. Katzenberg’s presentation was entertaining, and told the usual tails of an industry that

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June 19, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Moving up the Stack–VMware and the Software World

By Ben Kepes

Summary – Another long post so here’s a summary. Infrastructure will become commoditized and because of this VMware is moving up the stack. Ecosystem partners involved with CloudFoundry are best to partner with multiple PaaS vendors rather than CloudFoundry alone. Recently there was a fairly heated discussion on Twitter specifically

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April 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Linux Foundation Launches CloudOpen Event

By Ben Kepes

I’m a firm believer in the value that an open approach towards cloud computing can bring. Aside from any technical benefit (of which there are many) open appeals to my sense of community, of fairness, of democratization. For this reason it was exciting to hear an announcement from the Linux

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September 23, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday OpenStack (disclosure, RackSpace, one of the originators of the OpenStack project, is sponsoring CloudU, an education program that I’m curating) rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed “Diablo”. Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally answering those who say it isn’t yet ready for real world

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May 19, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zenoss Rolls up to Join CloudFoundry Ecosystem

By Ben Kepes

One of the gambles open platforms make is that partners will rock up to build offerings on top of the platform. It must be every product manager’s worst nightmare to create a place that has little but tumbleweeds rolling around it. VMware is no exception and when they announced CloudFoundry

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