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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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  • GreenQloud – Because PRISM isn’t the Only Way for Non US Clouds to Differentiate

    August 23, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, Application programming interface, AWS, cloud computing, GreenQLoud, IOS, Netherlands, Paul Miller
     

    Since the news broke of PRISM and the other big Government spying programs, there has been an almost deafening number of non-US cloud vendors use the news as a justification for their product. The highly opportunistic marketing spin goes…

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  • CloudBeat – Coming Fast!

    August 22, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, CloudBeat, Conferences, IBM, Paul Miller, PayPal, San Francisco, venturebeat
     

    For the third year running, Paul Miller and myself are consulting to VentureBeat and helping craft a conference agenda devoid of the usual vendor pitches and in their place full of real world customer stories. Having been on a…

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  • ODCA Forecast and Structure Panels Next Week

    June 13, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, Marriott International, ODCA, Open data, Open Data Center Alliance, Paul Miller, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, UBS
     

    Next week I’m heading to San Francisco for a few days to take part in a couple of events. Firstly I’ll e taking part again in the annual Forecast event run by the Open Data Center Alliance. Forecast was…

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  • Apprenda Launches Hybrid Cloud Support

    November 27, 2012

    Business
    .NET Framework, Apprenda, cloud computing, Microsoft Windows, PaaS, Paul Miller, platform services, Silicon Valley
     

    Today is the first day of the Cloudbeat conference, an event that myself and Paul Miller have, for the second year, built the agenda for. CloudBeat is all about customer case studies and not about vendor announcements, that said…

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  • CloudBeat 2012–Just Around the Corner

    August 14, 2012

    Business
    Business, cloud computing, CloudBeat, Financial services, Paul, Paul Miller, San Francisco, venturebeat
     

    November sees me winging my way to the US not once, but twice. The end of the month sees me once gain team up with friend and colleague Paul Miller to help VentureBeat with the content for their CloudBeat…

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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

About Me

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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