Tag Archives: Wellington

April 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I have to give a well times disclosure at this point, New

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February 18, 2013 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis

By Ben Kepes

Recently I attended Webstock, a conference in Wellington, New Zealand that is well known for bringing together technology, design and general brain stimulation. It was a great event, with some awesome speakers but one presentation, by Jason Scott, part of an activist preservationist group Archive Team, kind of stuck in

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September 10, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Citrix Acquires Beetil – Great Result for the Wellington Heroes!

By Ben Kepes

The web-based helpdesk space is pretty busy – but while big names like Zendesk and Assistly (now help.com desk.com) get most of the attention, a little battler from Wellington, New Zealand has been quietly building out its product. That commitment has paid off with the announcement today that Beetil is

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April 26, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Head of Microsoft Azure Calls Out Greenbutton. The Perfect Cloud Case Study?

By Ben Kepes

A month or two ago I ran a CloudCamp in Wellington which was preceded by a presentation by a local company there, Greenbutton. The Greenbutton offering is , or at least should be, something of a poster child for a move to the cloud. Greenbutton leverages cloud processing to drive

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