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  • The Great Cloud API Debate and VMware’s Hybrid Cloud – Inside Baseball, Unicorns and Rainbows

    September 12, 2013

    Business
    AWS, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Magic Quadrant, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, Paul Miller, VMware
     

    I spent a couple of days this week at CloudBeat, an event that Paul Miller and I have, for the past three years, consulted to on content. The highlights of the show for me where the panel I moderated…

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  • On OpenStack and the AWS API – Internal Divisions Surface

    July 24, 2013

    Business
    amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, Cloudscaling, google, OpenStack, rackspace, Simon Wardley
     

    It’s OSCON week, and three years since OpenStack was officially launched – in that time it’s built a vibrant ecosystem, real world customers and more debate than anyone would have ever imagined. There are some notable critics, none so…

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  • On Cloud Brokers and Whether they have a Future (Pun Intended)

    July 3, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Futures exchange, James Urquhart, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, San Francisco, TechStars
     

    While in San Francisco recently I chaired a debate to look at whether there is in fact a future in cloud futures. The debate was an event from the Cloud Market Forum, an initiative that I’m on the steering…

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  • Cloudscaling Scores $10M Series B and Some High Profile Customer

    May 22, 2013

    Business
    Cloudscaling, Dell, hewlett packard, LivingSocial, OpenStack, rackspace, Trinity Ventures, Virtual Network Computing
     

    Cloudscaling is this morning announcing that it has secured $10M by way of a Series B venture round. This news comes at a super interesting time when public cloud provision is being heavily squeezed into just a handful of…

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  • Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!

    May 2, 2013

    Business
    #cloud2020, Cloud 2020 Summit, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, data center, DevOps, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, Rodrigo Flores
     

    Next week sees my friend Krishnan Subramanian and I put on the Cloud 2020 Summit in Vegas. The summit is an exclusive look at the future of cloud infrastructure – it’s going to bring together pundits, vendors and enterprise…

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  • Speaking at DeployCon and CloudConnect

    April 1, 2013

    Business
    ActiveState, CloudConnect, Cloudscaling, Neal Sample, platform services, Ryan Floyd, Salil Deshpande, Software as a Service
     

    This week sees me on a whirlwind visit to the Bay Area where I’ll be speaking at a few different events as follows: Tuesday – DeployCon I’m really looking forward to the second edition of DeployCon – in the…

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  • On Cloud And Disruption

    January 18, 2013

    Business
    Business, Christensen, Clayton M. Christensen, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Crossing the Chasm (book), Geoffrey Moore, Moore
     

    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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  • 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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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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