Tag Archives: cloudcamp

13/09/2011 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

ASP Isn’t SaaS. Is It?

By Ben Kepes
A month or so ago I was running a CloudCamp in Australia. As always it was a great event but was made more so by a fascinating exchange between two very different people. On the one hand was Michael Folmer-Hansen from SaaS customer support vendor Zendesk, who was attending his first CloudCamp after
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06/09/2011 Posted in engineyard 2 Comments

Explaining PaaS

By Ben Kepes
In a recent CloudU report – I made an effort to explain the Cloud Computing stack to non-technical, Mom and Pop businesses. As I reflected upon last week, the triangle metaphor is slightly imperfect for describing what the Cloud is. One of the reasons for this is the high degree of breadth that
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23/08/2011 Posted in National Institute of Standards and Technology, New Zealand 1 Comment

On Definitions – Keeping it Simple with OSSM

By Ben Kepes
  In my travels running CloudCamps all over the place, I’m always surprised how often the “how do you define Cloud” question comes up. Spending so much time in the rarefied atmosphere of the twitterverse, it’s easy to just assume that everyone else “gets it” and that we can
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28/02/2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On Traditional Conferences

By Ben Kepes

Why do they still exist? The other day I received a call from someone looking to put on a Cloud Computing conference in New Zealand. Now it’s important, for context’s sake, to know that I’ve run around 10 CloudCamps in New Zealand, all around the country. I’ve blogged on New

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10/10/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite – Sales Success, Keeping the Ecosystem Happy and a Hint of Future Moves

By Ben Kepes

I’m in Sydney en route to a CloudCamp in Canberra and taking in a day of the inaugural NetSuite APAC SuiteCloud event. Over lunch with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, APAC MD Chris Schafer and a bunch of customers and channel partners, I got to talk to people about some interesting

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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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