Category Archives: Business

April 26, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Forecast 2012 and CloudExpo–Free Ticket!

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been invited to present at Forecast 2012 in New York in June. Forecast is an event run by the Open Data Centre Alliance looking at how Cloud is impacting upon the industry. My panel will look at Enterprise Cloud best practices. As part of my speaking slot, I’ve been

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April 26, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

More on Banking 2.0–Who Ya Gonna Trust?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been writing now for a few years about Banking 2.0 – a general term that I use to describe what financial services will look like when it discovers open, social, API enablement, mobile and all the other business and technology trends that are converging today. I wrote a post

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April 25, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Torbit Delivers Insights into Website Speed

By Ben Kepes

We’ve long known that small incremental improvements in website speed pay dividends in terms of higher conversion rates. Traditionally however there has been something of a disconnect with website performance vendors focusing closely on developing improved speed functionality on the one hand, and website owners unsure of what (if any)

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April 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Linux Foundation Launches CloudOpen Event

By Ben Kepes

I’m a firm believer in the value that an open approach towards cloud computing can bring. Aside from any technical benefit (of which there are many) open appeals to my sense of community, of fairness, of democratization. For this reason it was exciting to hear an announcement from the Linux

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April 24, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

AWS Launches a Marketplace–Proof that Much of the Value is Further Up the Stack

By Ben Kepes

Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from that in the short term but it’s a risk for them long term. Other infrastructure vendors will surely follow suit. It’s game on!

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April 23, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xero Nabs Intuit Exec

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long wondered how Xero will execute upon its North American opportunity – after all North America is the real goal for the company, and also where they face the biggest hurdles to success. I’ve even been roundly criticized for articulating this question I’ve spent some time with Xero’s US

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April 23, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Incapsula–Security and Performance for the Masses

By Ben Kepes

Difficult economic times have led to a huge number of people moving from paid employment to self-employment. Many of these people are building digital businesses that rely on a website to either directly sell their offering, or to tell the world their offering exists. This move has led to a

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April 20, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Big Opportunities in the Cloud

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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April 19, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

More on the IT Business Boiling Point

By Ben Kepes

Over the last few days I’ve been talking to people about the tension that exists between “traditional” and “next generation” software platforms. The discussions had their genesis in a post I wrote specifically looking at NetSuite and Oracle, but relate to a host of other vendors – Microsoft contrasted with

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April 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Blitz.io Takes testing Across the Application Lifecycle

By Ben Kepes

A regular theme I talk about with vendors is the move for what could formerly be though of as purely point solutions into a more holistic view of the world. The big opportunities in the cloud revolve around finding functions that can straddle a variety of workloads, applications or other

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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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