Tag Archives: Rackspace Cloud

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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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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August 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Boundary Delivers Application Monitoring–For Free

By Ben Kepes

Boundary, the application monitoring company that promises super-quick implementation time is today announcing a bunch of new capabilities that it is hoping will see it increase uptake for its offering. Included in this release is an interesting new tool that creates visual representations of application topology and tracks changes in

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July 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – I run the CloudU education program which is supported by Rackspace, one of the key backers of OpenStack. I am also an investor in Appsecute, a PaaS management platform. Today is an exciting day for anyone who follows the infrastructure or PaaS space today as Rackspace announced the

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September 20, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Offers DBaaS on Rackspace Cloud

By Ben Kepes

Xeround the database service (more on them here) that is brining high levels of flexibility to cloud database users, is today rolling out availability on the Rackspace cloud. Formerly available on Amazon EC2 and Heroku, Xeround is moving in their ambition to support a large number of cloud infrastructure providers.

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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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