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  • AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

    May 3, 2013

    Business
    AppZero, cloud computing, Greg O'Connor, Microsoft Windows, Portable application, Servers, Virtual application, Virtual machine
     

    If there is one thing that gets enterprise folks riled up, it’s those sitting in the gallery talking about cloud bursting and application portability in general. To the excited blog posts announcing the latest solution to the application portability…

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  • HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

    May 1, 2013

    Business
    data center, High availability, HybridCluster, IBM, rackspace, Servers, SQL, VMware, Web hosting service
     

    Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the…

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  • Removing the Barriers to Cloud Adoption

    April 3, 2013

    Business
    Amazon.com, Business, cloud computing, Information technology, Netflix, Servers, Technology, Zynga
     

    Cross posted from the Cloudability blog… I spend my life doing a bunch of different things – but whether I’m investing, commentating on the technology industry, advising a startup or consulting to a large vendor, there are some common…

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  • Overcoming the Perils of Licensing with CiRBA

    January 30, 2013

    Business
    Andrew Hillier, CiRBA, License, Microsoft SQL Server, Servers, Site Management, Virtual machine, VMware
     

    The efficiency that virtualization brings is good and all, but there still exists issues around licensing costs. Essentially having a virtualization product, and making licensing changes to optimize a customer’s costs are two very different things. CiRBA, a provider…

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  • Zyrion Launches Predictive Analytics for IT Monitoring

    May 9, 2012

    Business
    Big data, cloud computing, Data mining, Information technology management, Predictive analytics, Servers, Zyrion
     

    Seemingly every day another vendor launches a service that promises to revolutionize the way they monitor their IT infrastructure. Generally these launches comply with all the buzzword – cloud, big data, predictive analytics etc. While I’ve no doubt that…

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  • Incapsula–Security and Performance for the Masses

    April 23, 2012

    Business
    Business plan, cloud computing, Domain Name System, Imperva, Incapsula, Servers, Website
     

    Difficult economic times have led to a huge number of people moving from paid employment to self-employment. Many of these people are building digital businesses that rely on a website to either directly sell their offering, or to tell…

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  • It’s the Total Cost of Ownership that Counts

    August 12, 2011

    Business
    cloudcomputing, Networking, rackspace, Servers, Total Cost of Ownership
     

    First published on the Rackspace blog. Not long ago I was alerted to a humorous, if somewhat jarring file. This pdf (read it and weep) is the price list for the Fusion series of applications from Oracle. The list has a couple of pages of…

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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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