Category Archives: The Cloud

14/09/2010 Posted in Business, Governance, IT, The Cloud Leave a comment

AdaptiveComputing Scores A Round – VC’s Back in Force

By Ben Kepes

I vaguely remember some time a year or so ago when VC funding of companies slowed down a little. It seems that little dip has well and truly passed – every week I’m receiving many email detailing another funding round. This morning it was the turn of StorSimple, now AdaptiveComputing

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29/06/2010 Posted in Strategy, General, The Cloud 3 Comments

Gmail’s Biggest Protector is Google Docs

By Ben Kepes

Recently I presented at a breakfast program put on by a local Microsoft reseller. My role was to give an overview of cloud computing and specifically articulate the value that SaaS applications can bring to an organization in terms of allowing them to focus on their core business and ignore

12/10/2009 Posted in Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud 5 Comments

Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

By Ben Kepes

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all

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19/11/2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud 10 Comments

MYOB on the block

By Ben Kepes

Interesting to read that suitors are coming from far and wide for MYOB. Guinness Peat Group is supporting a takeover for the business in which it already holds a 13.6% stake. It has joined in with another three investors who jointly hold 34% of the company to form a united

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07/11/2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Strategy, The Cloud 4 Comments

Could We Be Getting an Australasian Data Centre?

By Ben Kepes

News that the self-proclaimed Google “Duke of Data Centers” is in Australia holding some high level talks. Despite Google’s staunch “nether confirm nor deny” policy, some leaks seem to indicate potential for a Google data centre to be built in Australia. Clearly Australasia is a little hamstrung partly by the

30/10/2008 Posted in Blogroll, SaaS, The Cloud 1 Comment

And the Winner Is…..

By Ben Kepes

After an unprecedented response (people are so shallow out there – you offer something free and they swarm like vultures) the time has come to make the draw in the Diversity Bleeding Edge Competition. First though I’d like to run you through the exceptionally high tech process used to decide

10/10/2008 Posted in Business, Business and the Environment, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 81 Comments

Diversity Competition – Experience Life at the Edge

By Ben Kepes

Over on Geekzone Mauricio wants to send someone into space. Here on Diversity we’re not up to that level (yet) but we do want to send someone to the bleeding edge. I’m a firm believer in the Net PC concept – the idea that a low power machine, leveraging web

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08/10/2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud Leave a comment

Computerworld on Chrome

By Ben Kepes

Computerworld published an article this morning looking at just how "game changing" Google’s Chrome browser is. In the article CEO of Xero, Rod Drury, Marketing manager of ProjectPartner and myself were interviewed. Check it out here.

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01/10/2008 Posted in Business, IT, PaaS, SaaS, The Cloud Leave a comment

Build the Marketplace and the Stallholders will come

By Ben Kepes

Zoho is launching their application marketplace today. Like other similar offerings, the Zoho location is a place where customers can come and browse different applications, try them out and buy them (or get ‘em for free in some cases). Think of it as iTunes for apps. The difference between Zoho’s

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20/09/2008 Posted in Blogging, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 2 Comments

CloudAve weekly summary

By Ben Kepes

The end of our first week! CloudAve launched on Monday after lots of behind the scenes work by people all over the place – we’re stoked to be here (or more correctly there) and hope you’ll join us for the ride. As you’ll see below it’s been a busy week

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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