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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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VMware Rumors Circulate–MyPOV on What the New CEO Should Do

July 17, 2012

Business

appsecute, BMC, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, emc, iaas, Microsoft, PaaS, Paul Maritz, Platform as a service, VMware

With the tech press going into a tailspin yesterday over long-time Googler Marissa Mayaer being appointed as Yahoo! CEO, an equally exciting piece of news and separate but connected rumor was largely ignored. GigaOM reported that VMware is likely…

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Clarifying the Acronyms – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

March 30, 2012

Business

cloud, cloudcomputing, iaas, PaaS, Platform as a service, SaaS

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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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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Standing Cloud–Building an Intermediate Layer for the Cloud

June 9, 2011

Business

amazon web services, cloud computing, iaas, Magento, PaaS, PHP, Python, RightScale, Standing Cloud

While in Colorado I took the opportunity to spend some time with Standing Cloud – a vendor that provides an abstraction layer sitting on top of infrastructure offerings that helps cloud users deploy, manage, customize and develop applications on…

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SpotCloud Launches–A True Utility Model Cometh

February 14, 2011

Business

Capacity utilization, cloud computing, Enomaly, iaas, Reuven Cohen, Service provider, soptcloud, Zimory

I’ve long said that Cloud Computing will see us enter a paradigm where computing is considered a utility – much like water and electricity. If you accept this contention, then there is one reasonably glaring lack in he ecosystem,especially…

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MemBase and CouchOne and What it Means for Cloud Sartups

February 11, 2011

Business

Boomi, cloud computing, Heroku, iaas, John Taschek, Membase, NorthScale, NoSQL, PaaS, strategy

Focus.com Cloud RoundtableLast week marked the merger between Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne, associated companies producing NoSQL products. It’s a logical combination as it creates an end-to-end NoSQL solution. But more than that it’s an indication of something I’ve…

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Intalio Introduces Something New – Cloud Computing

July 1, 2010

Business

bpm, Force.Com, iaas, intalio, PaaS, SaaS, Salesforce.com

I spent some time recently talking with Ismael Ghalimi – CEO of Intalio. Intalio has been around for a number of years but has been something of a quiet performer – Ghalimi wishes to change this with the new Intalio product range. From their website, Intalio is a company that:

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Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

October 12, 2009

Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud

canterburycloud, christchurch, iaas, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, unconference

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we…

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