Tag Archives: Organization

January 31, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

More Proof That Shadow IT is a Growing Issue

By Ben Kepes

When talking with organizations about how the cloud can help them, I’m often told that cloud has no place in their organization and they’re not using it in any way, shape or form. They also point to the perceived security risks that cloud brings as their #1 reason for not

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January 9, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Which Apps To Move To The Cloud?

By Ben Kepes

When travel and talk to companies about the cloud, one of the common questions I get is about how to choose which applications to move to the cloud – once you’ve sold people on the benefits that cloud brings (agility, flexibility, scaling, economics), the next question is generally “cool, so

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November 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future

By Ben Kepes

A while ago over on GigaOm, Matt McLarty of Layer 7 Technologies wrote an awesome post about the rise of Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. For those who haven’t spent much time thinking about the term, BYOD describes the new paradigm where individuals within an organization supply their own devices (mobile,

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November 19, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Australian Startups Sentinus Aims to “Clean Up the Cloud”

By Ben Kepes

Security is often identified as one of the barriers to wider cloud adoption. Even though it is often counter to reality, there is significant doubt in many organization’s minds about the relative security of cloud as opposed to their traditional on-premise cloud. As I said this is often an irrational

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October 31, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Actual Cloud – The One To Chose

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

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October 16, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Cloud Portability – On Getting Data Out

By Ben Kepes

Much of the work I do revolves around talking to organizations about how they’ll start their journey to the cloud – discussions around barriers to adoption, dealing with cultural issues and security concerns all typically the main topics of interest. Recently, however, I was pointed in the direction of a

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September 26, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility

By Ben Kepes

An interesting recent trend I’ve been seeing is that of new vendors differentiating their cloud service through giving customers ultimate flexibility around what they use on their cloud – rather than shoehorning them into a couple of OS options, or a few pre-defined server sizes and specs, these vendors provide

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September 25, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So

By Ben Kepes

The other day I came across this awesome post from Peter Sonsini from NEA. I’m actually loathe to critique it – Peter has gone to lengths to present a coherent thought leadership piece on the future of PaaS and PaaS providers – there are so few people who truly understand

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September 4, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Diversity Analysis Becomes Diversity Limited–What’s In a Name?

By Ben Kepes

For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how best to describe what I “do”. I run Diversity, a pretty diverse (hence the name) operation which covers a bunch of different things – I spend time evangelizing about Cloud Computing, I opine on the technology landscape, I consult to large technology

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August 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Technology Democratization In Action

By Ben Kepes

Initially posted on the Rackspace Blog. For a few years now I’ve noticed a convergence in the different areas I write about. Almost 20 years ago I wrote a paper about the dawn of a new type of organization, one that was organic and which morphed depending on the situation

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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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