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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 6, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Nasty Truth Around Public Cloud Ecosystems

By Ben Kepes

Recently there have been a few high-profile examples of small cloud providers turning off support for one or another public clouds. First came AppFog who made the mysterious decision to cut off all support for their PaaS running on Rackspace infrastructure. Only a few days later Xeround announced that they

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May 1, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

By Ben Kepes

Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the large cloud players. Quickly we begun to postulate about what 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 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 11, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud and Flexibility, Is It a Technology Problem or a Business One?

By Ben Kepes

The rise of Infrastructure as a Service got the world used to on demand, utility services that correlate perfectly with an organization’s particular demand profile Indeed one of the key value propositions that all cloud infrastructure vendors articulate is that, whereas in the fast infrastructure needed to be purchased in

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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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March 6, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

By Ben Kepes

Last year saw the long-expected, and oft-delayed announcement by Google that it was entering the cloud infrastructure market. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a fairly immature (in terms of product breadth) raw infrastructure service that initially at least, seems to be trying to compete with the incumbent, Amazon Web Services,

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January 1, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Me and CloudU – So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

By Ben Kepes

(For those not au fait with the late, great Douglas Adams and “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the above title is a reference to that awesome tome.) Over the last couple of years, I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved at CloudU. When I first approached Rackspace with the

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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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