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Cloud Financials on the Up and Up

August 1, 2013

Business

Business, Diversity Limited, intacct, netsuite, rod drury, SAP AG, service, Software as a Service, Xero, zach nelson

For a long time the traditional financial vendors dismissed the cloud upstarts as little more than amateur providers that caused no challenge to their own market share – in their mind “real” businesses would still use the rock solid…

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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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The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators, Part Two

January 11, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Application programming interface, Cloud Foundry, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, OpenStack, Platform as a service, RightScale

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take…

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Actual Cloud – The One To Chose

October 31, 2012

Business

Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Las Vegas, Mark Thiele, Om Malik, Organization, 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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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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Private Clouds Must Be Agile

October 12, 2012

Business

Chief information officer, cloud, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Infrastructure, Scalability, Self-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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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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A Conversation on Open Cloud–Google+ Hangout

August 31, 2012

Business

CloudOpen, Diversity Limited, Jonathan Bryce, Krishnan Subramanian, opensource, OpenStack, Rackspace Cloud, YouTube

The discussion around open versus closed in the cloud is reaching fever pitch but what does it all mean? Many people have but the loosest understanding of what open cloud means and the differences between open source, open clouds…

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Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps

December 7, 2009

Uncategorized

Diversity Limited, gmail, google, Google Account, Google apps, Google Reader, New Zealand, WYSIWYG

I was sitting down for a pleasant morning coffee with the boys from WaveAdept, a New Zealand based company that, among other things, is a reseller for Google apps. Our discussion got on to the barriers to adoption for…

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