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Continuuity Launches Big Data Application Fabric–Warning: Buzzwords Abound

October 23, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, Big data, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Continuuity, platform services, Programming, Software as a Service

Coming out of stealth today at Strata and Hadoop World is Continuuity, a company that is looking to position itself within the PaaS landscape as it gives organizations the ability to build, deploy and scale big data apps. All…

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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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Cloud Portability – On Getting Data Out

October 16, 2012

Business

Business, Business Services, cloudcomputing, Customer, Customer Management, data center, Organization, Software as a Service

Much of the work I do revolves around talking to organizations about how they’ll start their journey to the cloud – discussions around barriers to adoption, dealing with cultural issues and security concerns all typically the main topics of…

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Rethinking IT As An Enabler, Not A Blocker

October 8, 2012

Business

amazon web services, Ben Kepes, Business, cloudcomputing, e-commerce, Hardware, Software as a Service, twitter

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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RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility

September 26, 2012

Business

amazon web services, cloudcomputing, enterprise, Eucalyptus, OpenStack, Operating system, Organization, RightScale

An interesting recent trend I’ve been seeing is that of new vendors differentiating their cloud service through giving customers ultimate flexibility around what they use on their cloud – rather than shoehorning them into a couple of OS options,…

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If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So

September 25, 2012

Business

appsecute, Business, cloudcomputing, Future, Infrastructure, management, Organization, PaaS, platform services, Solution

The other day I came across this awesome post from Peter Sonsini from NEA. I’m actually loathe to critique it – Peter has gone to lengths to present a coherent thought leadership piece on the future of PaaS and…

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SnapLogic Raises $20M to Integrate the World

September 19, 2012

Business

Business, cloudcomputing, Dell, e-commerce, Ignition Partners, platform services, SnapLogic, user interface

Whenever I’m asked where the big investment opportunities exist in technology (and believe me – it’s a question I get asked very often), I always point people in the direction of companies whose product or services straddle a variety…

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Diversity Analysis Becomes Diversity Limited–What’s In a Name?

September 4, 2012

Business

Business, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, Krishnan Subramanian, Organization, Rishidot Research, techcrunch, Technology

For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how best to describe what I “do”. I run Diversity, a pretty diverse (hence the name) operation which covers a bunch of different things – I spend time evangelizing about Cloud Computing,…

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

September 4, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, cloudcomputing, Information technology management, TCO, techcrunch, Total Cost of Ownership

In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a guest post from Jinesh Varia from…

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PaaS API Specification Submitted to OASIS–CAMP Blowing Around in the Tumbleweeds

August 30, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, CloudBees, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, platform services, Red Hat, Sam Ramji

I took some time out of my day at CloudOpen today to dial in for a briefing from some of the companies behind a new industry standard, Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) management Application Programming…

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