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  • On Big Cloud Threats–Watch out for Google Compute Engine

    March 6, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, AWS, emc, google, Nicira, OpenStack, rackspace, VMware, Werner Vogels
     

    Last year saw the long-expected, and oft-delayed announcement by Google that it was entering the cloud infrastructure market. Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a fairly immature (in terms of product breadth) raw infrastructure service that initially at least, seems…

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  • Traditional IT Shops Starting to Evangelize Cloud, and End to the FUD In Sight?

    February 1, 2013

    Business
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon web services, australia, AWS, Chief financial officer, Commonwealth Bank, sydney, Virtual private cloud
     

    I was interested to read some coverage of the recent event that was run by Amazon Web Services in Sydney, Australia to celebrate the launch of two Sydney availability zones for the company. As an aside its interesting to…

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  • The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators, Part Two

    January 11, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, Application programming interface, Cloud Foundry, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, OpenStack, Platform as a service, RightScale
     

    A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take…

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  • Alfresco–Cloud Content Management with a Hybrid Theme

    December 17, 2012

    Business
    Alfresco, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, amazon web services, cloud computing, Content management, Egnyte, Microsoft SQL Server, Virtual private cloud
     

    The cloud content management world is fairly divided between those who believe a public cloud delivery model is the best option for customers (example, Box.com) and those who believe enterprises will only adopt a cloud approach when it is…

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  • HP Discover Europe and the Viability of HP’s Cloud Play

    November 28, 2012

    Business
    amazon, amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, hewlett packard, HPDiscover, OpenStack, Singh, Virtustream
     

    I’m heading to Europe for HP’s Discover event and the conference has me thinking about the last Discover event I attended in Las Vegas earlier his year and HP’s awful few weeks around the Autonomy debacle. Alongside my theme…

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  • Re:Invent Announcements–Boundary Introduces Pre-Emptive Monitoring

    November 27, 2012

    Business
    amazon, amazon web services, AWS, Boundary, cloud computing, Las Vegas, Microsoft, Puppet Labs
     

    This week marks the first Amazon Web Services user conference. The AWS event, re:Invent, is being held in Las Vegas and given the massive awareness that AWS and its ecosystem has, we should see lots of product announcements from…

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  • Ping Identity – Managing and Monitoring Through Cloud Outages

    November 7, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, automation, Boundary, Monitoring, ping identity, Puppet Labs
     

    For anyone who has been living under a rock for a few weeks, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had an outage a week or so back which was the latest in a relatively long list of outages that has plagued…

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  • Nimbula Joins the OpenStack Community

    October 15, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, cloud computing, Marten Mickos, Nimbula, Nimbula Director, OpenStack, rackspace, Reza Malekzadeh
     

    A piece of news that I’ve been aware of for a month or two now is today public knowledge – Nimbula (more on them here), the cloud infrastructure company famously founded by the team that developed Amazon’s prescient EC2…

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  • Rethinking IT As An Enabler, Not A Blocker

    October 8, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, Ben Kepes, Business, cloudcomputing, e-commerce, Hardware, Software as a Service, twitter
     

    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-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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  • RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility

    September 26, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, cloudcomputing, enterprise, Eucalyptus, OpenStack, Operating system, Organization, RightScale
     

    An interesting recent trend I’ve been seeing is that of new vendors differentiating their cloud service through giving customers ultimate flexibility around what they use on their cloud – rather than shoehorning them into a couple of OS options,…

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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