Blog Archives

On Public, Private and Horses for Courses…

March 20, 2012

Business

cloud connect, cloudcomputing, Netflix, twitter, Zynga

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-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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Commodity Clouds for the Enterprise–Inside the Economics

March 28, 2011

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud connect, cloudcomputing, Cloudscaling, commodity, Open source, rackspace, randy bias

Recently at the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Randy Bias, co-founder of cloud builder Cloudscaling gave a fascinating talk which sought to dispel many of the myths around enterprise cloud computing. Bias’ talk is an excellent way to…

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Jamcracker and the Need for Brokers

March 22, 2011

Business

Business, cloud computing, cloud connect, Jamcracker, Service level agreement, Telstra

While in San Jose recently attending the Cloud Connect event, I took the opportunity to meet up with Jamcracker to get a briefing both on their solution and what they’re currently working on. Jamcracker is a 10 year old…

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Keynote Brings Performance Monitoring to Private Clouds

March 7, 2011

Business

cloud connect, Keynote

This week is going to see a huge number of announcements from Cloud vendors – the Cloud Connect event is a date they time releases for. One of the announcements coming out is from Keynote, a NASDAQ listed vendor…

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CloudConnect Next Week–My Sessions

March 4, 2011

Business

ccevent, cloud connect, cloudcomputing, opensource

Next week sees me winging my way to Santa Clara to attend CloudConnect. While there I’ll be involved with two sessions that I’m really excited about. The first is on Tuesday at 2:30 and it deals with an area…

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Blog Archives

On Public, Private and Horses for Courses…

Commodity Clouds for the Enterprise–Inside the Economics

Jamcracker and the Need for Brokers

Keynote Brings Performance Monitoring to Private Clouds

CloudConnect Next Week–My Sessions