Tag Archives: Servers

May 3, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

By Ben Kepes

If there is one thing that gets enterprise folks riled up, it’s those sitting in the gallery talking about cloud bursting and application portability in general. To the excited blog posts announcing the latest solution to the application portability problem come howls of derision claiming that it’s all a pipe

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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 3, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Removing the Barriers to Cloud Adoption

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from the Cloudability blog… I spend my life doing a bunch of different things – but whether I’m investing, commentating on the technology industry, advising a startup or consulting to a large vendor, there are some common threads at play. My core thesis is that technology in general,

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January 30, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Overcoming the Perils of Licensing with CiRBA

By Ben Kepes

The efficiency that virtualization brings is good and all, but there still exists issues around licensing costs. Essentially having a virtualization product, and making licensing changes to optimize a customer’s costs are two very different things. CiRBA, a provider of capacity control software, aims to help with this problem with

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May 9, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zyrion Launches Predictive Analytics for IT Monitoring

By Ben Kepes

Seemingly every day another vendor launches a service that promises to revolutionize the way they monitor their IT infrastructure. Generally these launches comply with all the buzzword – cloud, big data, predictive analytics etc. While I’ve no doubt that IT infrastructure monitoring is vitally important, it seems that vendors, in

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April 23, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Incapsula–Security and Performance for the Masses

By Ben Kepes

Difficult economic times have led to a huge number of people moving from paid employment to self-employment. Many of these people are building digital businesses that rely on a website to either directly sell their offering, or to tell the world their offering exists. This move has led to a

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August 12, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

It’s the Total Cost of Ownership that Counts

By Ben Kepes

First published on the Rackspace blog. Not long ago I was alerted to a humorous, if somewhat jarring file. This pdf (read it and weep) is the price list for the Fusion series of applications from Oracle. The list has a couple of pages of product items, a bunch of different modules, minimum numbers of seats

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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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