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  • Proving Identity and Trust in a Distributed World – Ebay, Publons and the Bitcoin Protocol

    September 6, 2013

    Business
    Andrew Preston, Bitcoin, Electronic money, Isaac Newton, Kim Dotcom, Preston, Vikram Kumar, Wellington
     

    Recently I spoke at the Digital Identity and Security conference held in Wellington. At the event the CEO of Mega, the (in)famous file sharing site created by Kim Dotcom, Vikram Kumar, spoke of the need for privacy in the…

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  • GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

    April 16, 2013

    Business
    Big data, Chief technology officer, cloud computing, greenbutton, OpenStack, Portland Oregon, vCloud, Wellington
     

    I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I…

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  • Clown Computing–Entertaining and Attention Grabbing but a Flawed Thesis

    February 18, 2013

    Business
    Archive Team, christchurch, cloud computing, Cloud storage, GeoCities, Internet Archive, webstock, Wellington
     

    Recently I attended Webstock, a conference in Wellington, New Zealand that is well known for bringing together technology, design and general brain stimulation. It was a great event, with some awesome speakers but one presentation, by Jason Scott, part…

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  • Citrix Acquires Beetil – Great Result for the Wellington Heroes!

    September 10, 2012

    Business
    Assistly, beetil, Calif, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, Dan Lee, Wellington, zendesk
     

    The web-based helpdesk space is pretty busy – but while big names like Zendesk and Assistly (now help.com desk.com) get most of the attention, a little battler from Wellington, New Zealand has been quietly building out its product. That…

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  • Head of Microsoft Azure Calls Out Greenbutton. The Perfect Cloud Case Study?

    April 26, 2011

    Business
    cloud computing, greenbutton, Microsoft Azure, Wellington
     

    A month or two ago I ran a CloudCamp in Wellington which was preceded by a presentation by a local company there, Greenbutton. The Greenbutton offering is , or at least should be, something of a poster child for…

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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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