Tag Archives: enterprise

Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

By Ben Kepes

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the judges in the Structure Launchpad gave Cloudability – and we both

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Forklifting Apps to the Cloud – Realistic or Not?

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago, the shock du jour was the (slightly tongue in cheek) resignation by Christian Reilly from his (very tongue in cheek) position of President of the Private Cloud. There needs to be a little background to this – Christian is something of an anomaly in the industry,

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McKinsey on SaaS

By Ben Kepes

RobinB sent me the latest McKinsey enterprise software report. It makes for interesting reading and will validate what SaaS vendors already know. It’s very interesting that a large number of respondents described SaaS as the most important trend impacting the business, this shows that SaaS goes beyond simply another way

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Scoble on Google for Enterprise…

By Ben Kepes

Robert Scoble has an interesting perspective on Google’s moves into enterprise over here. His comments come after seeing a demo of a Cemaphore product called MailShadow for Google Apps, which synchronizes email and calendar items between Microsoft Outlook and Exchange and Gmail/Google Calendar. Now there are already products that do

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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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