Tag Archives: rackspace

30/01/2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

An Awesome CloudU Testimonial

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 can

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25/01/2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FireHost Switches on European Cloud Hosting. But What Does “Secure: Actually Mean

By Ben Kepes

FireHost (more on them here) a cloud company that is targeting large companies with particular compliance and high traffic needs – customers span the eCommerce, SaaS, healthcare and security areas is today announcing the opening of its European operations. It’s an exciting move, especially for someone who has a penchant

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28/12/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Have a Happy, and Cloudy, New Year from CloudU

By Ben Kepes

Over twelve months ago I came up with the crazy sounding idea of a vendor neutral education program that would see Mom and Pop businesses (along with regular IT folks) gain a resource with which they could build their knowledge of Cloud Computing. Luckily there were some incredibly progressive folks

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01/12/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudU Certificate–Interview with a Graduate

By Ben Kepes

When I first spoke with Rackspace over a year ago about CloudU, the basis of the concept was that as someone who has seen first hand the benefits Cloud Computing can bring to an organization, I wanted to tackle a project that saw more people understand what Cloud is and, in doing so,

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23/11/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Small Teams, Big Impacts

By Ben Kepes

A favorite saying of someone I know in this industry is that “It’s not the big that eat the small, it’s the fast that eat the slow”. It’s a recurrent theme as terms like “pivot”, “lean”, “agile” and “minimum viable product” become the lingua franca of startups. We’ve moved rapidly

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07/11/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudU Certificate–A Quick Plug

By Ben Kepes

Most readers will know that over the past year I have been very busy running CloudU, a broad-based cloud education program that I created with the support of Rackspace. The program has met with amazing support – the whitepapers have been extensively read, the webinars well patronized and the initial

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27/10/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

By Ben Kepes

The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But, ladies and gentlemen, I hear the same from every other PaaS

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29/09/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Dropping Costs While Still Providing Support–A SmartPayroll Case Study

By Ben Kepes

Over the past couple of years I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time with Asantha Wijeyratne, CEO of SmartPayroll, a New Zealand Payroll provider. I’ve been interested to talk to him, partly because he’s a lovely guy with an interesting business ethic, but also because his business is growing rapidly,

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23/09/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday OpenStack (disclosure, RackSpace, one of the originators of the OpenStack project, is sponsoring CloudU, an education program that I’m curating) rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed “Diablo”. Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally answering those who say it isn’t yet ready for real world

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20/09/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Offers DBaaS on Rackspace Cloud

By Ben Kepes

Xeround the database service (more on them here) that is brining high levels of flexibility to cloud database users, is today rolling out availability on the Rackspace cloud. Formerly available on Amazon EC2 and Heroku, Xeround is moving in their ambition to support a large number of cloud infrastructure providers.

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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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