Tag Archives: OpenStack

May 22, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloudscaling Scores $10M Series B and Some High Profile Customer

By Ben Kepes

Cloudscaling is this morning announcing that it has secured $10M by way of a Series B venture round. This news comes at a super interesting time when public cloud provision is being heavily squeezed into just a handful of vendors. At the same time every man and his dog is

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May 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Updates its Cloud Management Software

By Ben Kepes

Just in case anyone didn’t realize it – the future of IT is one where organizations use a wide variety of different solutions – public and private, and spanning different operating systems and application stacks to deliver the individual requirements of end users. The acquisition last week of Enstratius by

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May 9, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Facebook and the OCP Signal a Big Problem for Traditional Networking Vendors

By Ben Kepes

One of the more interesting keynotes at Interop cam from Frank Frankovsky, the guy who is not only in charge of Facebook‘s infrastructure, but also heads up the Open Compute Project, an initiative that was originally started by Facebook but now has real cross-party steam behind it. The Open Compute

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May 7, 2013 Posted in Business 8 Comments

Who Said Dell is Dead? Enstratius Acquisition and Boomi API Management Play Suggest Reinvention is in Progress

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday Jo Maitland, GigaOm Pro Analyst, published a pretty damning post in which she characterized both Dell and BMC as, essentially, the living dead. Her view was that the move to privatize the companies (a done deal for BMC, in progress for Dell) is a last-gasp effort to resuscitate a

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April 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Breaking – AppFog Switches off the Rackspace Cloud

By Ben Kepes

AppFog customers received an email today advising them that the PaaS company will no longer support applications hosted on Rackspace infrastructures (screen grab below). We’ve been hearing through the back channel for quite some time that AppFog has been struggling to gain marketshare and revenue. Despite some high profile funding,

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April 24, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

OpenStack and The Enterprise Cloud – Not the Usual Suspects

By Ben Kepes

Last week saw me travel very briefly to Portland to attend the analyst day at the OpenStack Summit (disclosure – alongside a posse of my analyst colleagues, the OpenStack foundation covered my T&E to attend the event. I’m also in the process of writing a whitepaper supported by the foundation).

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April 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I have to give a well times disclosure at this point, New

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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 10, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud 2020 Summit – Apply to Attend Now!

By Ben Kepes

Sometimes in the day to day discussions of product announcements, funding activity and M&A froth we miss the opportunity to take a deep look at what the future looks like. This is especially so in the infrastructure space where some massive shifts (and, yes, some massive buzzwords) are really changing

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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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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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