Tag Archives: Platform as a service

May 15, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Operations is Dead, but Please Don’t Replace it with DevOps

By Ben Kepes

OK, so the title is provocative, but bear with me here. Recently I spent a mind-expanding day at DevOpsCon in Israel – I presented the first keynote, which aimed to set the scene for why DevOps is a necessary reaction to some broad organizational and technological changes. What was really

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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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March 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Citrix CloudPortal – Enabling Services Providers to Build Out Broad Portfolios

By Ben Kepes

The ~aaS (as a service) acronym must be the most overdone three letters in technology – not satisfied with the main three divisions – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – there are a plethora of other acronyms as well XaaS, DBaaS, BaaS etc. Sometimes there is justification for coning another term

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February 7, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Appsecute Launches a DevOps Focused Social Stream

By Ben Kepes

Exciting times at Appsecute at the moment as the team begins to unveil its new vision for the company. When the company first started (and, for anyone not aware of the fact, I’m an investor and board member) our vision was to provide a single place to manage all the

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January 11, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators, Part Two

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take the time to report the two part interview – it’s long

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October 22, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Gartner’s Latest IaaS Magic Quadrant Released–Meh With a Bit of Interesting

By Ben Kepes

I’m not usually big on Gartner’s crystal-ball-gazing Magic Quadrant methodology – some people claim it’s pay-for-play writ large. I don’t know about that, it just seems to be a somewhat hokey, albeit scientifically-based, prediction of what might occur or, more often, hat already is. Anyway – with that said, the

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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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July 27, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Interview with The Cube

By Ben Kepes

While in New York a month or so ago I presented at the OPDCA Forecast event. Just before going on stage John Furrier from Silicon Angle interviewed me for The Cube. He wanted to get my thoughts on a wide variety of topics – from cloudwashing to big data, from

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July 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Preparing Developers For Tomorrow’s Cloudy World

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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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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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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