Monthly Archives: April 2010

30/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

T Shirt Friday #41 – Pervasive

By Ben Kepes
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt
30/04/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Riptano, Cloudera For Cassandra

By Krishnan Subramanian
Riptano , a new company launched recently can be considered Cloudera of Cassandra project. This company was started by two ex-Rackspace employees (disclaimer: Rackspace’s Email Division is a client of Diversity Analysis) to provide support services for Cassandra much like how Cloudera was started
29/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

On Design at Apple

By Ben Kepes
Whether you love or hate the way they do business, there are not many people who would argue that Apple creates product of deep thought and beauty. In this video, Apple chief designer Jonathan Ive, he who is credited with ideating every Apple device since the first iMac, talks about purposeful desig
29/04/2010 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

Video: Can Cloud And On Premise Storage Co-Exist

By Krishnan Subramanian
From time to time, we showcase videos showing different vendor's perspectives on cloud computing. As a part of this tradition, today we offer the perspective of i365 , a Seagate Company. If the embedded video is not available for you, use this link.CloudAve is exclusively sponsored by
29/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

ClearBooks Ups the Ante

By Ben Kepes
Interesting to read that ClearBooks , the UK based privately held online accounting application, has just secured a new financing deal for an undisclosed sum. Their press release announcing the deal is a marketing message – calling out Sage and Intuit, and specifically pitching itself as a “mor
29/04/2010 Posted in Analysis, Strategy Leave a comment

Red Hat Takes Another Step Towards Cloud Computing

By Krishnan Subramanian
Redhat, the poster child of open source and maker of most popular Linux distribution in the enterprise market, took another step into the cloudy future. Redhat recently released version 5.5 of their popular Enterprise Linux distribution. They followed it up with an announcement focused mainly on the
29/04/2010 Posted in Product reviews Leave a comment

Adaptive Planning for Budgeting

By Ben Kepes
At the recent SuiteCloud conference (see disclosure) I met with AdaptivePlanning and had a look at their application. AdaptivePlanning was founded in 2003 by a CFO who had previously been involved with many large businesses. Having built a number of highly complex budgeting tools in spreadsheets
28/04/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: VMForce – A Marriage Of Convenience

By Krishnan Subramanian
This is a second post in my series titled "PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services". I was planning to write about Heroku but since the VMForce news was a good fit for the topic, I am pushing the analysis of VMForce under the series. The post about Heroku will follow soon. Today morning, VMWare and Sal
28/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Differentiating in a Commoditized World: On Syncplicity and Expanz

By Ben Kepes
At the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Allister Croll gave an excellent presentation, actually as an aside, Croll ran close to half of the Cloud Connect sessions and really did a sterling job of managing the conference. Anyway – in his session Croll was talking about the opportunities for investm
27/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Appirio Guest Post

By Ben Kepes
Over on the Appirio blog they’re running a series getting cloud perspectives from a bunch of different industry players. Appirio approached me with a bunch of questions to answer, I thought I’d repost those questions (and my answers) here. It was a general overview of current cloud trends and ba

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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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