Tag Archives: Storage

October 29, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Storage Webinar–Innovating within a Mature Space

By Ben Kepes

In the oh-so-exciting world of storage, innovation tends to be somewhat incremental – unsurprising given the fairly mature status of the industry. I’m led to believe that HP will be making a significant storage-related announcement at Discover EMEA in December, an event that I’ll be attending. While storage is kind

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November 30, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

By Ben Kepes

I’m sitting here at the CloudBeat event, a conference that I’ve had a deep involvement in with as co-content adviser along with my friend and colleague Paul Miller. Our focus for this event was to avoid the obvious vendor pitches and CloudWashing sessions and instead gather togteher some great customer

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November 15, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

TwinStrata Turns Local into Cloud

By Ben Kepes

Given the sunk costs organizations already have in IT assets, it’s perhaps unsurprising that much innovation is occurring around blending existing infrastructure with cloud aspects. Latest to jump into the fray is TwinStrata who have just announced a new release of its CloudArray storage gateway which will enable organizations to

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June 27, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

SolidFire–Solid State Performance at Spinning Disk Pricing

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time last week talking with Dave Wright, CEO of SolidFire at the Structure conference. SolidFire was formed by the founders of JungleDisk after they’d served out their earn out time post the acquisition of JungleDisk by Rackspace. Based on the credibility and track record of the founders

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December 21, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Backup My Info–Differentiating with Service

By Ben Kepes

A recurring theme in briefings with vendors is a search for a point of differentiation – there are many application types where there are a huge number of vendors all battling for market share – in situations like this everyone is trying to find a nugget of difference to crate

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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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