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  • HA and DR in the Cloud – Two Sides of the Same Coin

    August 29, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, Disaster recovery, High availability, Justin Pirie, mimecast, RightScale, Video, Vimeo
     

    I’m often asked about good ways for organizations to take a first step to the cloud. One such step that has been apparent for years is that of disaster recovery – no one wants to expend capital on hardware…

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  • Cloud Migration Vendors – The End of the Golden Weather

    August 19, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, CloudSwitch, CloudVelocity, Disaster recovery, OpenStack, Ravello, RightScale, Software as a Service
     

    Over the past couple of years there have been a large number of startups gain attention and funding by promising the holiest of grails – effortless migration of workloads between cloud vendors. This promise, the basis of the hallowed…

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  • CloudVelocity – Lots of Funding, Lots of Customers

    July 18, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, Application programming interface, AWS, cloud computing, CloudVelocity, Disaster recovery, linux, Pelion
     

    The entire cloud migration space is one fraught with difficulties. On the one hand there are the not insignificant difficulties of actually migrating a production workload in real time – it’s often been said the very notion is a…

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  • VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

    November 30, 2011

    Business
    cloud computing, data center, Disaster recovery, Hardware, Multitenancy, Replication (computer science), Storage
     

    I’m sitting here at the CloudBeat event, a conference that I’ve had a deep involvement in with as co-content adviser along with my friend and colleague Paul Miller. Our focus for this event was to avoid the obvious vendor…

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  • On Disaster Recovery for SMBs

    July 15, 2011

    Business
    Acronis, australia, backup, Business, cloud computing, Disaster recovery, Emergency management
     

    This has been a big year for disasters in my neck of the woods. From floods and fires in Australia to ongoing Earthquakes in Canterbury – business have had their continuity approaches tested and retested to the limit. One…

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  • SMBs and Disaster Recovery

    March 3, 2011

    Business
    backup, Business continuity, cloud computing, Disaster recovery, Downtime
     

    Given that much of my focus around Cloud Computing is the fact that Cloud enables smaller businesses to achieve a level of service formerly only available to the largest enterprises, it always piques my interest when something SMB related…

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  • SMBs and Disaster Planning

    January 24, 2011

    Business
    backup, Disaster recovery, Emergency management, mozy, Symantec
     

    The other day ReadWriteWeb posted about a recent Symantec survey that showed some unsurprising, but still pretty scary statistics for small businesses. The survey found that 57% of SMBs have no disaster recovery plan and even 47% of midsize…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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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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