The Diversity Blog – SaaS, Cloud & Business Strategy
  • Home
  • Newsletter Archive
  • Bio
  • Papers
  • Privacy Policy
  • Home
  • Newsletter Archive
  • Bio
  • Papers
  • Privacy Policy

Blog Archives

  • Citrix CloudPortal – Enabling Services Providers to Build Out Broad Portfolios

    March 27, 2013

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, netsuite, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Software development kit, SunGard Availability Services
     

    The ~aaS (as a service) acronym must be the most overdone three letters in technology – not satisfied with the main three divisions – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – there are a plethora of other acronyms as well XaaS,…

    Read more

  • Citrix Acquires Beetil – Great Result for the Wellington Heroes!

    September 10, 2012

    Business
    Assistly, beetil, Calif, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, Dan Lee, Wellington, zendesk
     

    The web-based helpdesk space is pretty busy – but while big names like Zendesk and Assistly (now help.com desk.com) get most of the attention, a little battler from Wellington, New Zealand has been quietly building out its product. That…

    Read more

  • Podio Acquired by Citrix

    April 11, 2012

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, Podio
     

    Short and sweet since I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours. News just to hand that Citrix has acquired Podio (much more on them here) for an undisclosed sum. Citrix is promising that nothing will change for this most…

    Read more

  • HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta

    April 10, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, Apache, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, CloudStack, hp, OpenStack, Software release life cycle
     

    Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it’s CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a…

    Read more

  • enStratus–Big Names, Big Money

    November 3, 2011

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, James Urquhart, John Willis, OpenStack
     

    News yesterday that cloud governance and management vendor enStratus (more on them here) has raised a cool $4.5M in a funding round that includes El Dorado ventures. The SEC filing is for an initial $3.5M but reliable sources tell me…

    Read more

  • Nimbula for Geographically Distributed Clouds

    August 15, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, Citrix Systems, enStratus, Nimbula, OpenStack, Reza Malekzadeh, user interface
     

    I’ve covered Nimbula previously, the company that is aiming to blend the scale enjoyed by public cloud providers like Amazon with the customization and control that private infrastructure enjoys. Nimbula has royal blood behind is with an executive/founder team…

    Read more

  • Citrix Acquires Cloud.com

    July 12, 2011

    Business
    Citrix Systems, Cloud.com, OpenStack, Peder Ulander, vCloud, VMware, VMware vSphere, Xen
     

    Massive news this morning for anyone even remotely interested in what’s happening in the cloud is the fact that Citrix has completed an acquisition of Cloud.com, the open source cloud computing platform vendor who was in the news just…

    Read more

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

About Me

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

Information Links

  • Home
  • Newsletter Archive
  • Bio

©2017 http://diversity.net.nz - All Rights Reserved

  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter