Tag Archives: New Zealand

September 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NZ Cloud Code of Practice

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just heard that a draft of the Terms of Reference for the New Zealand Cloud Code of Practice have been released – the document, for those interested, can be viewed here. The initiative is something I support and something I’ve kept a bit of a watching brief on –

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September 5, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Air New Zealand–Please Sort out Your Insurance Partner

By Ben Kepes

I love Air New Zealand – I spend a significant amount of time on their planes and try, whenever possible, to evangelize them as an airline. The have, in my view, the best service bar none, and it’s always a pleasure to travel with them. So on the (admittedly exceptionally

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September 2, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Convergence–Mobile, Web and Cloud Improve Customer Experience at NZSki

By Ben Kepes

Part of my excitement about cloud is that it seems to me to be one of the factors that is enabling a real change in the way people interact with each other and with organizations. Recently and old-schoolmate of mine (from longer ago than either of us would like to

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August 21, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Pacific Fibre Signs Vodafone

By Ben Kepes

Pacific Fibre announced this morning that Vodafone New Zealand had signed up to a 10 year multi-million dollar deal to acquire international bandwidth from the fledgling cable company. With this deal, and the previously announced one with REANNZ, Pacific Fibre should have done enough to get them through to build

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August 9, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud POS Vendor VendHQ Picks Up Funding

By Ben Kepes

An exciting development that I’ve known about for some time but that finally goes public today is the news that New Zealand based Cloud POS vendor, Vend (see my GigaOm piece on them here) has secured a new funding round from German venture capital group PointNine Capital. Interestingly enough, PointNine

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July 22, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Rolling out the Cloud to Australasia

By Ben Kepes

Spending as much time as I do talking about the benefits of cloud computing, it’s sometimes a little frustrating living somewhere that is generally the last place in the world to have access to technological innovations. Case in point is the aforementioned cloud computing – while we can obviously make

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July 19, 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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July 3, 2011 Posted in Business 10 Comments

Contention != Trolling

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been blogging now for around five years. In that time I’ve published about 2500 posts and gathered 4000 or so comments. Prior to blogging I wrote freelance for magazines and the odd newspaper. I’ve also sent out around 26000 missives on Twitter in the past few years – so

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July 3, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloud Sherpas Acquires WaveAdept

By Ben Kepes

Now that someone with lower respect for embargoes has broken the news, there’s nothing stopping me from talking about the latest acquisition for US based Google Apps reseller Cloud Sherpas. Cloud Sherpas is a company I’ve written about before, they’ve got a smart approach towards being a reseller in the

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June 22, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Cloud Computing (and Other Things) Outside of he US

By Ben Kepes

Last week I took part in a planning call for a focus.com roundtable I’m taking part in soon that sees a discussion around the opportunities, barriers and issues or Cloud computing outside the US – be it US companies selling offshore, or non US companies looking to opportunities in their

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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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