Tag Archives: techcrunch

September 4, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Diversity Analysis Becomes Diversity Limited–What’s In a Name?

By Ben Kepes

For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how best to describe what I “do”. I run Diversity, a pretty diverse (hence the name) operation which covers a bunch of different things – I spend time evangelizing about Cloud Computing, I opine on the technology landscape, I consult to large technology

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September 4, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

By Ben Kepes

In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a guest post from Jinesh Varia from AWS who correctly pointed out some of the difficulties around calculating

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August 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

By Ben Kepes

So Alex Williams (a great guy, good friend and awesome cloud pundit) wrote a post a week or two ago entitled “Why The Open Cloud Wins And Oracle Loses When IT Gets Virtualized.” (subtle huh?) Oracle wasn’t overly happy at Alex’s comments and counter posted saying that “TechCrunch is Clueless

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August 7, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

By Ben Kepes

The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product is powered by OpenStack, and combines that with SSD-powered nodes to

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August 3, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Cloud – It’s About Flexibility

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

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September 6, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Journalistic Process, Conflicts of Interest, Embargoes and… Arrington

By Ben Kepes

Over the weekend a veritable firestorm erupted when it was announced that Michael Arrington, founder and editor ofTechCrunch was forming a venture fund, backed by none other than the owners of TechCrunch, AOL. The firestorm centered mainly on the questions around conflicts of interest related to Arrington’s editorship of TechCrunch

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September 24, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New business, Strategy 5 Comments

On start-ups and paying CEOs

By Ben Kepes

At the TechCrunch 50 conference Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley uber investor was quoted as saying that there is a ceiling in terms of CEO salary for a startup, beyond which you begin to “have issues”. For a more general take on CEO salaries (not tech specific) check out this article.

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September 21, 2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, Strategy 1 Comment

I’m all for disruption but….

By Ben Kepes

TechCrunch waxes poetical on the threat to Microsoft, and in particular the exalted position of Outlook, that Facebook poses. TechCrunch says that; Facebook succeeds because it is the killer web application for communications and personal information management. Facebook Mail is not without its problems, but the combination of Facebook Mail,

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September 15, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, Society 2 Comments

Ouch – be nice guys!

By Ben Kepes

I posted a few weeks ago about the battle of words between the organisers of the TechCrunch50 and Demo conference organisers. You’ll recall that there was much bitching between the respective organisers over who stole whose ideas, whose thunder ad whose business advice posts. The latest development in the battle

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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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