Tag Archives: Virtual machine

May 3, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

By Ben Kepes

If there is one thing that gets enterprise folks riled up, it’s those sitting in the gallery talking about cloud bursting and application portability in general. To the excited blog posts announcing the latest solution to the application portability problem come howls of derision claiming that it’s all a pipe

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January 30, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Overcoming the Perils of Licensing with CiRBA

By Ben Kepes

The efficiency that virtualization brings is good and all, but there still exists issues around licensing costs. Essentially having a virtualization product, and making licensing changes to optimize a customer’s costs are two very different things. CiRBA, a provider of capacity control software, aims to help with this problem with

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September 17, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Apprenda Introduces Free Public-Cloud Hosted Version of Its PaaS

By Ben Kepes

In the seeming ever increasing rush towards so-called polyglot PaaS, or PaaS-providers supporting every language under the sun, there has been a single lone voice that has consistently been saying polyglot is a failed methodology. New York based Apprenda makes a .NET PaaS and has long said that only through

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September 7, 2012 Posted in Business 19 Comments

Scale Out vs Scale Up – ProfitBricks Aims to Challenge the Current Thinking for IaaS

By Ben Kepes

One thing that few people argue about in the move to the cloud is the accepted view that the best way to achieve scale is by throwing together lots of lightweight commodity machines with relatively low specifications, and stringing them together to achieve scale. It’s a compelling story and one

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August 23, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Sumo Logic Delivers VMware Product

By Ben Kepes

In the lead up to next weeks VMworld event, the product and partnership announcements are coming thick and fast. This morning it is the turn of Sumo Logic who are announcing that their log management and analytics product covers log data from VMware products. This integration sees Sumo Logic users

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July 23, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

Yet another day of massive news with today’s blast coming from VMware who are acquiring Nicira, a five year old veteran of software defined networking (SDN). This follows closely on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps, a heterogeneous cloud management tools and really speaks to VMware’s view on a

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April 27, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

NextAxiom Looks to Solve Application Integration

By Ben Kepes

NextAxiom, a company founded over a decade ago, is pushing hard to create what it calls a silo-free enterprise. It’s take on this hallowed territory is that by enabling intelligent information flow between discrete information silos, organizations will be able to integrate existing applications and develop new ones that leverage

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October 25, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Uptime Offers Monitoring and Capacity Planning for VMware

By Ben Kepes

As we move into a world where organizations make more and more usage of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, providers that offer those same organizations tools to ensure the performance of those resources will become more and more important. Into that role steps uptime software, an existing player in the IT systems

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October 4, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Abiquo–Another Player in the Infrastructure Management Space

By Ben Kepes

It seems like every day I get a briefing from a vendor whose elevator pitch goes something along the lines of “We enable enterprises to manage their infrastructure – on-premise or cloud in a consistent and flexible way by spanning the spectrum from traditional infrastructure to cloud providers”, recently the

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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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