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May 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent the last few years watching the meteoric rise of cloud content management vendor Box. Their approach has been to empower individual groups or business units within an organization to collaborate more effectively around their content and then to expand their presence within the organization. The “land and expand”

Tagged Avaya, box, Business, Lennar Corporation, MGM Resorts International, Netflix, Stanford University, Webcor Builders |

November 29, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Puppet Labs Scores Series C

By Ben Kepes

In an indication of both the general frothiness of the investment space, and the excitement that investors have in cloud services, automation software vendor Puppet Labs is today announcing a $8.5M series C funding round which includes a strategic move by Cisco, Google and VMware. Puppet Labs has gained some

Tagged automation, cloud computing, OpenStack, Puppet Labs, RightScale, Stanford University, VMware, Zenoss |

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.