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Top x of x Lists and a Missed Social Marketing Opportunity

October 7, 2013

Business

Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Commemorative plaque, Facebook, Huffington Post, Klout, Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts, twitter

Awhile ago the Huffington post, in its infinite wisdom, decided to publish a list of the “Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter“. Now before I go any further, I have to say that, despite stroking the ego, these…

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Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

February 4, 2013

Business

Ben Kepes, Chief financial officer, cloudability, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, Mat Ellis, Tyler Sloat, zuora

Recently, I moderated a CloudU roundtable that continued an ongoing theme of mine –overcoming the hurdles to greater cloud adoption. In this case we looked deeply at the cloud cost area. This is a really important problem space to…

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Me and CloudU – So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

January 1, 2013

Business

Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Douglas Adams, economics, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The, OpenStack, Professional certification, rackspace

(For those not au fait with the late, great Douglas Adams and “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the above title is a reference to that awesome tome.) Over the last couple of years, I’m really proud of what…

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Book Review: ‘Cloudonomics: The Business Value Of Cloud Computing’

December 7, 2012

Business

Ben Kepes, Business, Business Value of Cloud Computing, cloud computing, cloudonomics, e-commerce, economics, Joe Weinman, Weinman

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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Actual Cloud – The One To Chose

October 31, 2012

Business

Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Las Vegas, Mark Thiele, Om Malik, Organization, 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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Barriers To Entry – Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

October 19, 2012

Business

Ben Kepes, Chief financial officer, cloud computing, cloudability, cloudcomputing, Company, Diversity Limited, education, Tyler Sloat, zuora

A theme I’ve been exploring over the past year or so has been the barriers to cloud adoption. Time spent with organizations using cloud has shown me just how valuable a move to the cloud can be – in…

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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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I won’t be using Chrome.

September 5, 2008

Business

Ben Kepes, Chrome, google, privacy, Read Write Web, unreasonablemen.net

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A couple of reasons. Firstly unlike Firefox and Safari and of course the corporate supported IE, it doesn’t seem to get past the companies proxy server. Second, and most importantly to me I’m not…

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