May 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Standing Cloud Launches Their Very Own Marketplace

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago the cloud punditry was excited by the announcement that Amazon was introducing a marketplace to provide high-stack services on top of their infrastructure services. A number of us believe that as infrastructure becomes ever-more commoditized, it will be through providing services at higher levels of the

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May 17, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Issues Around Cloud Adoption – Part Two

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-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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May 16, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

A OneLogin Update

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months identifying some underlying themes within the cloud space, and some corresponding big opportunities which dropout of those themes. One bucket of opportunities that I’m excited about is services that straddle a number of different IT resources – this could

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May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Zuora Partners With a Host of Mid Market Financial Vendors

By Ben Kepes

In my extensive writing around the subscription billing space, I have often noted that it is a very polarized sector of our industry with a handful of well funded companies providing services for large organizations – Zuora, Vindicia and Aria fit in this space. These companies are maneuvering for position

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May 14, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

By Ben Kepes

Xeround, the database as a service offering is today announcing an integration that sees it power MySQL applications running on both AppHarbor’s .Net platform as well as AppFog’s PHP platform. As developers increasingly look to PaaS as the first choice for easing the deployment and management aspects of their task,

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May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

More SaaS Integration from MuleSoft

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the past few months talking with businesses trying to wrangle the integration of different applications. Despite lots of APIs, the cloud, mobile devices, the democratization of IT and many other current themes, application integration is still hard, painful and requires a far

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May 11, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Issues Around Cloud Adoption

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-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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May 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Better Cloud Announces Funding–Rolls out New Products

By Ben Kepes

BetterCloud,the New York based startup who launched only a few months ago with DomainWatch, a security offering for Google Apps users, is today announcing a $2.2M funding round that will see it accelerate development of Google Apps products. As part of this announcement BetterCloud is  announcing a public beta of

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May 9, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zyrion Launches Predictive Analytics for IT Monitoring

By Ben Kepes

Seemingly every day another vendor launches a service that promises to revolutionize the way they monitor their IT infrastructure. Generally these launches comply with all the buzzword – cloud, big data, predictive analytics etc. While I’ve no doubt that IT infrastructure monitoring is vitally important, it seems that vendors, in

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May 8, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SuiteWorld-Looking Back, Looking Forwards

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me winging my way, albeit briefly, to San Francisco to take part in the annual NetSuite user conference, SuiteWorld. It will be the third time I’ve been to the event, and it’s always a great chance to catch up with colleagues, talk with NetSuite customers and partners,

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The Author

Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance 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. More on Ben

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