Tag Archives: Microsoft

24/01/2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Huddle Fights to Gain Viral Uptake

By Ben Kepes

  In a world where new entrants are trying to break the near-hegemony that Microsoft SharePoint has in enterprise content management, the new generation of vendors is painfully aware that they are in a death race to build momentum. Revenue comes secondary to increasing the viral spread of their products

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09/01/2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Google Apps Marketplace–Chances of Survival

By Ben Kepes

Over on his blog, VC Brad Feld posted about the experience of three of his portfolio companies being part of the Google Apps Marketplace – Spanning, Yesware and Attachments are all built on top of Google Apps and Feld is particularly positive about their experience; While Google has been building

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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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21/10/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Raises $81M and Raises the Stakes at the Same Time

By Ben Kepes

Big news last week was the confirmation of a massive new funding round for perennial crowd favorite box.net. For those that didn’t see the news, Box snagged $81M from existing and new investors including salesforce and SAP ventures. While others carried news of the funding, I wanted to spend some

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13/09/2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

GigaSpaces Brings Java to Azure

By Ben Kepes

The last few months have seen a mass move from PaaS players to move from single language/framework to support to being all things to all peopple. From PHPFog renaming itself AppFog and adding new languages, to Heroku rolling out Java to CloudFoundry going Node.js, multi language is the way of

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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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19/07/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Greenbutton Nabs Microsoft, Swiftpoint Nabs Costco

By Ben Kepes

I always like to be able to write about the successes of businesses down in my neck of the woods and today I’ve got a couple of stories to write about. Firstly GreenButton, the company that I’ve called “the perfect cloud case study” nabbed USD1M in funding from non other

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27/06/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

.NET has Enterprise Cred–AppHarbor Banks on That With a PaaS

By Ben Kepes

In the race to build credibility with the development community, Ruby on Rails wins the battle to be cool hands down – look for a new web 2.0 application, or hunt down a quintessential garage-dwelling developer and it’s a safe bet they live in Ruby. That doesn’t change the fact

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18/05/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Coupa Gets New UI, and Guarantees Results

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Coupa, a provider of a SaaS product for controlling and streamlining purchase and expense management. When I first reviewed the product I had questions around the viability of a third party product offering these services – the way I saw it this was pretty much core

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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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