Tag Archives: Werner Vogels

May 15, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Operations is Dead, but Please Don’t Replace it with DevOps

By Ben Kepes

OK, so the title is provocative, but bear with me here. Recently I spent a mind-expanding day at DevOpsCon in Israel – I presented the first keynote, which aimed to set the scene for why DevOps is a necessary reaction to some broad organizational and technological changes. What was really

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March 6, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

By Ben Kepes

Last year saw the long-expected, and oft-delayed announcement by Google that it was entering the cloud infrastructure market. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a fairly immature (in terms of product breadth) raw infrastructure service that initially at least, seems to be trying to compete with the incumbent, Amazon Web Services,

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February 22, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Amazon Goes PaaS–Game On. Let’s See How the Competition Respond.

By Ben Kepes

A week or two ago I had a heated argument on Twitter with someone who was adamant that Amazon would remain an infrastructure player and avoid the temptation to move up the stack. Even after the release of DynamoDB, we weren’t entirely sure as to their intentions. That kind of

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December 2, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloudology–All That is Bad About IT

By Ben Kepes

I haven’t got a lifetime’s experience in IT. Rather than an impediment in my career however, I’ve found that having come from a varied background has given me a degree of perspective that perhaps some of my lifers don’t enjoy. Case in point – this Cloudology diagram that Simon Wardley

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September 14, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Is the Stack Dead?

By Ben Kepes

For years now those of us who talk Cloud on a daily basis have used variations on a triangle shape as a way to articulate what Cloud actually is and how the various services that make up Cloud can be differentiated. Traditional thinking (if one can have traditional thinking in

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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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