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15/11/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

By Ben Kepes

Whenever technology platforms change, there is a scramble to provide the underlying services upon which the new paradigm sits. The move to the cloud is no different and cloud monitoring is one area where there is a significant amount of activity in terms of startups being founded and funded. Today

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09/08/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

With Impeccable Timing, BMC Introduces Updated Cloud Operations Solutions

By Ben Kepes

So yesterday wasn’t the best of days in the cloud. Initially a couple of outages for Amazon and Microsoft in Europe were the discussion point, but since no one really cares about Europe, it didn’t garner huge amount of attention. What did get people looking though was the fact that

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08/08/2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On the Microsoft and Amazon Outages in Ireland–The Need for More Redundancy

By Ben Kepes

So now the world knows that the current outages that Amazon and Microsoft are suffering in Europe have been caused by lightning strikes on their Dublin data centers. The outages have caused downtime for users of both Amazon EC2 and Microsoft BPOS services. I’ll not delve into the issues around

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23/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 1 Comment

Private Cloud Redux – Nimbula Bets on Today’s Reality

By Ben Kepes
A number of cloud commentators seem to get all pent up and in a state of agitated hand-wringing about private cloud. “But it’s not the true cloud” they say, having some sort of dogmatic view over what is, and isn’t cloud. In my mind – so long as it’s scalable and abstracts management awa
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17/04/2008 Posted in IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 4 Comments

PaaS from a bookkeeping app? Think beachheads….

By Ben Kepes

Breaking news from Intuit that they are launching a cloud computing offering to compete with Force, AppEngine, Amazon etc. Intuit is the creator of Quickbooks (think 3.6million users for their bookkeeping offering) and it would seem that this offering is all about creating applications wrapped around Quickbooks (a la Force

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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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