Tag Archives: PaaS

June 14, 2011 Posted in Business 9 Comments

On the Battle Lines of PaaS–The Future is Bifurcated

By Ben Kepes

Friend and one-time colleague Krishnan Subramanian posted recently his view of the different ways PaaS products can be differentiated. Very briefly, Krish classed products in three distinct categories; Traditional PaaS models (push your app to the PaaS and all the underlying stuff is taken care of). Examples – Heroku, Google

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June 9, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Standing Cloud–Building an Intermediate Layer for the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While in Colorado I took the opportunity to spend some time with Standing Cloud – a vendor that provides an abstraction layer sitting on top of infrastructure offerings that helps cloud users deploy, manage, customize and develop applications on different IaaS offerings with different programming languages. The service currently supports

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March 7, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

GigaSpaces goes PaaS. Answers the Silo Concerns

By Ben Kepes

This week I will be helping run a Bird of a Feather session at CloudConnect looking at, among other things, vendor lock in through PaaS. It’s an issue that is perhaps the biggest concern around the use of PaaS, the fear that customers will be locked into one vendor. I

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February 11, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

MemBase and CouchOne and What it Means for Cloud Sartups

By Ben Kepes

Focus.com Cloud RoundtableLast week marked the merger between Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne, associated companies producing NoSQL products. It’s a logical combination as it creates an end-to-end NoSQL solution. But more than that it’s an indication of something I’ve been noticing at the lower end of the Cloud Computing stack.

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July 12, 2010 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Azure Launches Cloud in a Box, But this one might be more than just CloudWash

By Ben Kepes

Big news today was the announcement by Microsoft that it is releasing Azure technology to some hardware vendors. The ideas of this is to create a Windows Azure platform appliance that will form (according to Dell, one of the hardware partners) a “turnkey cloud platform available to enterprises to enable

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July 1, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Intalio Introduces Something New – Cloud Computing

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time recently talking with Ismael Ghalimi – CEO of Intalio. Intalio has been around for a number of years but has been something of a quiet performer – Ghalimi wishes to change this with the new Intalio product range. From their website, Intalio is a company that:

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November 18, 2009 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Microsoft Flicks the Switch on Azure, Acumatica Standing By

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference the switch will finally be flicked on Microsoft’s long awaited cloud computing offering Azure. Of course spinning up an infrastructure offering is one thing, having products and services to run on it is another – and this is where my accounting/ERP interest dovetails

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October 12, 2009 Posted in Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud 5 Comments

Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

By Ben Kepes

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all

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August 6, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

Trineo – Heading for the Big Time

By Ben Kepes


A few months ago I wrote a href="http://www.cloudave.com/link/making-crm-work-for-verticals"
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title="Salesforce">salesforce.com platform. I alluded to a new offering that was, at that time in stealth mode – the company behind that offering, Trineo has been invited to San Francisco next week to pitch to a panel of investment and IT gurus, including class="zem_slink" href="http://www.sequoiacap.com/"
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title="Sequoia Capital">Sequoia Capital, as part of the final selection process for the Force 40 Innovation Showcase competition, run by class="zem_slink" href="http://www.salesforce.com/"
rel="homepage" title="Salesforce">Salesforce.com as part of their Dreamforce conference in November.



Trineo is a development and


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April 16, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, PaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

PaaS – monolithic or segmented stacks…

By Ben Kepes

An excellent post over on SaaS blogs locks at two possibilities for PaaS. One is very vertical in nature (AppEngine, Force etc) providing all the various layers needed for the offering (library layer, delivery layer, compute layer). The other is much more horizontal in nature where, say, a vendor provides

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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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