Tag Archives: Python

February 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

By Ben Kepes

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to ensure your name would live on after your death. While

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August 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Temboo Eases App Development–API Shortcuts

By Ben Kepes

The life of developers is arguably more exciting than ever before – with so many different services only an API call, it is possible for developers to deliver upon what were only dreams a few short years ago. But all of those services, and all of those hundreds of APIs

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January 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP Cloud Services

By Ben Kepes

With the multitude of PaaS vendors that now exist, most providing an all-things-to-all-people polyglot solution that is (in my view at least) largely undifferentiated from their competitors, there is an increasing focus on vendors making partnerships that allows them to build both mindshare and market penetration. The latest is ActiveState

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November 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Stackato gets Management and Monitoring for Private PaaS

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been really positive about Cloud Foundry, seeing it as doing the sort of things for PaaS that OpenStack does for IaaS. If Cloud Foundry succeeds in its aim, Organizations will have a PaaS solution that they can use where they want, with whichever cloud provider they want and with

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August 30, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

The Perception Risks of Multi Language PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Over the past year or so I’ve become more excited about PaaS and what it means for the future of technology. In my mind, it seems that teo things are going on in the cloud stack. At the lower levels of the stack, IaaS is becoming commoditized and rapidly entering

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June 9, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Standing Cloud–Building an Intermediate Layer for the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While in Colorado I took the opportunity to spend some time with Standing Cloud – a vendor that provides an abstraction layer sitting on top of infrastructure offerings that helps cloud users deploy, manage, customize and develop applications on different IaaS offerings with different programming languages. The service currently supports

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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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