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February 1, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Traditional IT Shops Starting to Evangelize Cloud, and End to the FUD In Sight?

By Ben Kepes

I was interested to read some coverage of the recent event that was run by Amazon Web Services in Sydney, Australia to celebrate the launch of two Sydney availability zones for the company. As an aside its interesting to look at the list of services that AWS has chosen to

Tagged Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon web services, australia, AWS, Chief financial officer, Commonwealth Bank, sydney, Virtual private cloud |

August 24, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Rackspace Allays Australasian Patriot Act Fears

By Ben Kepes

News the other day that Rackspace (see disclosure) will soon be opening its first data center in Sydney, Australia. This marks the first large scale US vendor to announce a local operation in my neck of the woods – rumor has it that others won’t be far away. The news

Tagged australia, Jim Fagan, Patriot Act, rackspace, sydney, United States, US Government, USA PATRIOT Act |

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.