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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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Cloudability Goes GA, Launches Pro Offering

November 13, 2012

Business

cloud, cloudability, iaas, spend management

As I’m winging my way to the family reunion that is Defrag, Cloudability, a company I was a very early advisor and investor in, is announcing their product is coming out of beta and going General Availability. This is…

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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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In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part Two

September 5, 2012

Business

cloud computing, cloudability, erp, foundry group, Information technology, jason mendelson, Series A round, Trinity Ventures

In part one of this post I talked about the lack of insight that currently exists over ROI for users of cloud computing. I actually contend that this is an underlying problem for IT generally and not just for…

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Cloudability Scores Huge Series A

July 12, 2012

Business

cloud computing, cloudability, foundry group, jason mendelson, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, TechStars, Trinity Ventures

Note – As detailed below, I’m an investor and adviser to Cloudability – disclosure is important so feel free to peruse my disclousre page. It’s exciting times at Cloudability HQ as the team announces an awesome $8.7M Series A…

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Cloud Adoption, And The IT/Business Tension

April 2, 2012

Business

BMC, Business, Cloud Lifecycle Manager, cloudability, cloudcomputing, Software as a Service, Strategic business unit

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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ControlMyCloud Goes Beta

December 14, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, amazon web services, Business, cloud computing, cloudability, controlmycloud, sensiblecloud, Service level agreement

One of the concerns that many people have when considering a move to the cloud is that of granular control. The last thing an organization wants is to open the flood gates to uncontrolled performance, cost or poor efficiency.…

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On Being Appointed to the Cloudability Advisory Board

October 11, 2011

Business

cloudability, JR Storment, Mat Ellis

Earlier this year I attended the GigaOm Structure conference and was interested to watch the companies demoing in the startup competition. A couple of us at the event were a little surprised that Cloudability, one of the companies at…

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Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

June 30, 2011

Business

cfo, cloud computing, cloudability, enterprise, iaas, LaunchPad, Monitoring, SaaS, SMB

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the…

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