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  • Trusting the Cloud

    September 15, 2010

    Business
    clearbooks, cloud computing, GetSatisfaction, kashflow
     

    The cloud computing industry looks ready for some industry standards. This was highlighted last week when UK accounting vendor ClearBooks had its worst nightmares come true when it had database errors which led to both an unscheduled downtime and a significant loss of data for customers.

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  • A Tale of Two Generations – Sage Languishes while Financial Force Innovates

    May 27, 2010

    Small business, Strategy
    Business, cloud computing, Dennis, Denver, Eddie Castro (speedway rider), FinancialForce.com, sage, SAP AG
     

    Software is undergoing a generational change – I thought I’d pull out an example to show what the old generation is doiing and contrast that to what the “cool kids” are doing. I was interested to read Dennis Howlett’s…

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  • Media Relations is an Ongoing Process. Sage Seems to Forget That.

    May 10, 2010

    marketing, Strategy
    cloud computing, Duane Jackson, kashflow, Paul Walker, Phil Wainewright, sage, Sage Group, service
     

    A year ago I wrote a post congratulating Sage on an increase in communications they’d had with me. As I said at the time: So I give Sage significant kudos for reaching out and contacting some of us, but…

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  • MobileMe and LiveMesh staffers go head to head…

    July 27, 2008

    Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
    Apple, cloud computing, Microsoft
     

    It’s fun being on the sidelines watching this one! Steve Clayton from Microsoft was pretty chuffed to be able to blog about Apple’s MobileMe debacle. One could almost hear the glee in his words reporting that, for once something…

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  • Sometimes utilities go down…

    July 22, 2008

    Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy
    cloud computing
     

    The blogosphere got in major panic this week when Amazon’s S3 online storage service went down for a number of hours. It seems there was around six hours of outage that had life threatening consequences – yes, worse than…

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  • Cloud computing and SaaS…

    July 16, 2008

    Design, IT, SaaS
    cloud computing
     

    Jeff Kaplan tries to clarify where he sees the intersect of cloud computing and SaaS. His post is in response to many people using the two terms pretty much interchangeably. Jeff says that; In my case, I view cloud…

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  • On the move to the clouds, an awesome post…

    July 11, 2008

    Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy
    cloud computing
     

    Stacey Higginbotham wrote a provocative post that fired up a lot of people detailing 10 reasons why cloud computing won’t take of within enterprise. The post is great – but more importantly there are some exceptional responses from different…

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  • A bandwidth tailored cloud…

    June 4, 2008

    Design, IT, SaaS, Society
    cloud computing, Microsoft
     

    Many have written about the barriers to true adoption of a cloud-based world. The biggest barrier is the lack of bandwidth and connectivity in various parts of the globe. It was great then to read Bill Gates’ thoughts about…

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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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