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  • Application Portability–An Ever More Crowded Space

    March 25, 2013

    Business
    Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSwitch, Google Ventures, Ravello, RightScale, Sun Microsystems, VMware
     

    Every time I start to use the term “cloud bursting”, friend and Clouderati ringleader Christian Reilly’s eyes start to roll and he makes comments about the illusory nature of the term – in his view, true application portability that…

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  • Required Reading – The Promise of the Internet of Things

    January 8, 2013

    Business
    Business, Christian Reilly, Future, General Electric, Internet of Things, Sustainability, Technology, Wi-Fi
     

    My friends and respected technologists Christian Reilly and Justin Burleigh are often to be found deep in discussion while cradling a pint of Stella. Often these discussions point to what they sees as the big mid-term opportunity for the…

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  • CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice

    September 28, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, Bechtel, Central processing unit, Chief technology officer, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSigma, Random-access memory
     

    As we move to broader scale cloud adoption, one would be excused for assuming that we’d reached a point where the definition of what constitutes infrastructure as a service is set in stone – true different vendors package up…

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  • Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That

    September 24, 2012

    Business
    Apigee, Application programming interface, Bechtel, Business, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, enterprise 2.0, Steven Willmott
     

    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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  • On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

    August 8, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, AWS, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enStratus, George Reese, NetworkWorld
     

    Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages.…

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  • VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis

    July 2, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, BMC, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, Dell, DynamicOps, RightScale, VMware
     

    News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally…

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  • Cloud Surveys, and Extrapolating Out to Disruption

    June 20, 2012

    Business
    Business, Christian Reilly, cloudcamp, cloudcomputing, e-commerce, OpenStack, Platform as a service, Software as a Service
     

    The other day a minor storm broke out amongst the clouderati that had its genesis in a post Krishnan wrote looking at who is likely to disrupt AWS (teaser – PaaS from one end and alternative IaaS operating systems…

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  • Public Cloud/Private Cloud–A Redux

    May 31, 2011

    Business
    Adrian Cockroft, Chris Hoff, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, James Urquhart, Netflix
     

    While being an advocate and evangelist for all things cloud, and all things public cloud for that matter, I’m also a pragmatist. Private cloud, while not meeting some theoretical utopian ideal, has value and validity and is driving benefits…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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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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