Tag Archives: cloudcomputing

March 30, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Clarifying the Acronyms – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

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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March 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Public, Private and Horses for Courses…

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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March 8, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Opa Aims to rethink Development for the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been researching a whitepaper for CloudU that looks at the different languages modern developers of cloud applications need to think about and it struck me that we’re running into some problems. While the myriad different components of web applications give great flexibility, they do little to hide the complexity

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March 7, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

That Old Cloud Cost Chestnut Again…

By Ben Kepes

Recently over on GigaOm, Charlie Oppenheimer wrote an extensive article looking at the relative costs of cloud versus self-hosting. It’s an excellently written article but one which in my (not so) humble opinion is flawed. Oppenheimer worked his calculations based on one particular vendor but my commentary that follows looks

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February 23, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Developer Operations in a Cloudy World

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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February 22, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Amazon Goes PaaS–Game On. Let’s See How the Competition Respond.

By Ben Kepes

A week or two ago I had a heated argument on Twitter with someone who was adamant that Amazon would remain an infrastructure player and avoid the temptation to move up the stack. Even after the release of DynamoDB, we weren’t entirely sure as to their intentions. That kind of

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February 15, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloud is Simple. Well, It’s Real Complex but that Complexity Can, and Should, be Hidden from Users.

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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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere

By Ben Kepes

One of the key traits of cloud computing is the fact that it follows a utility model with resources able to be metered by use. That’s a glorious thing as lots of benefits drop out of that – the ability to pay by use, the ability to cost recover with

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February 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

10000 Jobs, and All Requiring Cloud Skills. Who Said Cloud Was Just About IT?

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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February 3, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

A Checklist for a Move to 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, you

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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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