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ComodIT–IT Automation as a Service

ComodIT–IT Automation as a Service

By Ben Kepes on February 11, 2013

I’m always interested to speak with companies trying to build innovative solutions outside of the US. Despite living away from the epicenter of technology myself, all to often I find myself displaying a Valley-centric perspective on companies and the solutions they bring to market. It’s good for all of us

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged chef, Cloudswitch, ComodIT, Configuration management, enstratus, puppet, rightscale, software as a service

Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

By Ben Kepes on January 18, 2013

People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set up. A plethora of enterprise vendors have got their start in

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged CloudComputing, enstratus, Information Technology, salesforce.com, Solution, Strategic business unit, yammer | 2 Responses

Appcara Delivers Cloud Infra and App Management for AWS Based Clouds

Appcara Delivers Cloud Infra and App Management for AWS Based Clouds

By Ben Kepes on August 22, 2012

Appcara is an unfortunately named (considering the fact that Cloud Foundry creator, and Clouderati pin up boy Derek Collison’s new gig is called Apcera) company in the business of providing automation for cloud deployments. They use a modeling based approach towards designing and deploying cloud infrastructure. Appcara today announced an

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Appcara, bmc, CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, Derek Collison, enstratus, rightscale | 2 Responses

On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

By Ben Kepes on August 8, 2012

Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages. I will say that with Cloud Computing outages are more obvious than with traditional on-premise infrastructure. [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enstratus, george reese, NetworkWorld

The Future Ain’t Homogenized–Please Stop the FUD Vendors

The Future Ain’t Homogenized–Please Stop the FUD Vendors

By Ben Kepes on July 3, 2012

We all, commentators, vendors and customers, need this cloud thing to happen safely and consistently. Dogmatic messages like these ones do nothing to increase the comfort level of prospective or actual cloud customers. Vendors, please stop it now. That is all.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Chris Hoff, cloud computing, enstratus, heroku, McCarthyism, openstack, PistonCloud | 2 Responses

Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis

Google Compute Engine–Day One Analsysis

By Ben Kepes on June 28, 2012

At GoogleIO today, Google announced the limited launch of its Infrastructure as a Service product, Google Compute Engine. This comes as no surprise, the move has been rumored for months and Google does undeniably have some of the largest scale infrastructure on earth alongside the smarts to run it amazingly effectively – a potent combination [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, cloud computing, enstratus, google, google app engine, google compute engine, google i/o, Representational State Transfer, rightscale

Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode

Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode

By Ben Kepes on June 27, 2012

The battle royal that is being played out between the different Cloud “operating systems” reached new heights at Structure last week. While all of us are talking about this stuff however, vendors and customers alike are simply trying to get going with these tools. They’re not focused on idealogical battles, but rather on finding easy [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, chef, cloud computing, enstratus, george reese, intel, openstack, opscode

The Big Opportunities in the Cloud

The Big Opportunities in the Cloud

By Ben Kepes on April 20, 2012

Recently I was invited to take part in a series of private briefings where large financial institutions sat down with one or two industry analysts to “pick their brains” about what they’re seeing as broad trend in the sector. In an attempt to democratize what could otherwise be information kept within a walled garden, I [...]

Posted in Infrastructure, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Application programming interface, CloudComputing, enstratus, microsoft, openstack, vmware | 4 Responses

More on the IT Business Boiling Point

More on the IT Business Boiling Point

By Ben Kepes on April 19, 2012

ver the last few days I’ve been talking to people about the tension that exists between “traditional” and “next generation” software platforms. The discussions had their genesis in a post I wrote specifically looking at NetSuite and Oracle, but relate to a host of other vendors – Microsoft contrasted with Box. IBM contrasted with Appirio [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged appirio, bmc, Chief information officer, CloudComputing, enstratus, focus, IBM, netsuite, roundtable, survey

Dell Strikes Deal with enStratus

Dell Strikes Deal with enStratus

By Ben Kepes on April 16, 2012

  Exciting news today from enStratus that they have joined the Dell Emerging Solutions Ecosystem to be the delivery mechanism for Dell OpenStack powered clouds. With the deal, enStratus will be used by Dell to deliver the following functions to OpenStack customers;   Deliver applications with consistent governance and automation Control budgets and security access [...]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged automation, CloudComputing, Configuration management, enstratus, openstack

enStratus On A Roll

enStratus On A Roll

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 3, 2011

enStratus (previous CloudAve coverage), the Minneapolis based company focussing on cloud governance, has raised $3.5 Million according to this MarketBrief from SEC filing. Enstratus Networks, Inc reported today in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it had raised $3.5M of a $4M private offering. Companies file this special form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange [...]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud governance, cloud management, cloud.com, Cloudfoundry, enstratus, governance, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, Infrastructure services | 3 Responses

OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included

OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included

By Ben Kepes on September 23, 2011

Yesterday OpenStack rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed “Diablo”. Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally answering those who say it isn’t yet ready for real world implementations and specifically includes the following additional components; OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) OpenStack Compute additional functionality OpenStack Image Registry One aspect of the release that [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, enstratus, george reese, opensource, openstack, rackspace, rightscale | 1 Response

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 17, 2011

This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware’s CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and developers, there [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, chef, Cloudfoundry, crowbar, dell, enstratus, opscode, paas, paasfuture, platform services, rightscale, ubuntu, vmware | 2 Responses

API, API, API, API, API, API

API, API, API, API, API, API

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 11, 2010

If you imagined a tech CEO or an evangelist or a pundit jumping up and down like Steve Ballmer and shouting “API, API, API, API, API…….”, it may come true faster than you ever expected. In this cloud based world where every service wants to be a platform (see my PaaS Is The Future of [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged api, Apigee, cloud services, enstratus, foursquare, linkedin, paas, paypal, soundcloud, twilio | 7 Responses

enStratus Cloud Management Platform Selected For CSA Certification

enStratus Cloud Management Platform Selected For CSA Certification

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 29, 2010

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) was formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. Yesterday, at the Black Hat USA 2010 Conference, CSA announced industry’s first certification program on secure cloud computing. CSA has been [...]

Posted in Security | Tagged cloud computing, cloud security alliance, csa, enstratus, Security | 1 Response

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