Tag Archives: Technology

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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February 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Future of Organizations, The Future of Technology

By Ben Kepes

While attending HP’s Discover event (disclosure – HP covered some of my expenses for attending the event) in Frankfurt in December I was invited to take part in an interview alongside fellow Antipodean Paul Muller. The interview started off with Paul Muller explaining what he does in terms of looking

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January 23, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On the Ethic of Delivery – Required Watching

By Ben Kepes

Over the past few years I’ve been a kind of informal adviser to the Defrag event. The role is less than onerous, Eric Norlin totally understands what his participants (and at defrag, attendees really are participants and not simply an audience) most want to see. Defrag has always been a

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January 8, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Required Reading – The Promise of the Internet of Things

By Ben Kepes

My friends and respected technologists Christian Reilly and Justin Burleigh are often to be found deep in discussion while cradling a pint of Stella. Often these discussions point to what they sees as the big mid-term opportunity for the world to benefit from technology – the internet of things. In

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November 1, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BMC Launches MyIT – Bridging the IT/Business Divide

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from the BMC blog. I spend most of my time talking to technology vendors, IT folks and business people all in an effort to drive organizational benefits through the use of technology. Over years of doing this, I’ve noticed a stark divide that exists within an organization between

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September 6, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

IT Central Station Launches–A “Yelp for Enteprise IT”

By Ben Kepes

This one from the “trying to bring something from the consumer world into the enterprise but failing” category. IT Central Station is launching today and billing itself as the first tech product review site for the Fortune 1000. The idea is simple – much like Yelp, people can list and

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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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August 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Technology Democratization In Action

By Ben Kepes

Initially posted on the Rackspace Blog. For a few years now I’ve noticed a convergence in the different areas I write about. Almost 20 years ago I wrote a paper about the dawn of a new type of organization, one that was organic and which morphed depending on the situation

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November 2, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Customer Support isn’t Binary–On Zendesk Voice

By Ben Kepes

I spend a lot of time talking with technology startups about the way they engage with customers and prospects. Much of that time is spent explaining (in the nicest possible way) that, apart from a few select cases, most technology companies will eventually have to engage non technical users and

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May 11, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

SMBs and the Cloud–Still Not There. GlueCon Session

By Ben Kepes

I received news of an interesting survey recently. In a study of over 500 decision makers in business under 1000 employees, when asked about cloud computing, well over half of respondents replied that they are “not sure what it is” or are “not familiar” with what the term actually means.

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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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