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Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

By Ben Kepes on February 28, 2013

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of the princely $10M funding round the company had just raised. As I said at the time: […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, big data, CloudComputing, Continuuity, devops, facebook, platform services, Todd Papaioannou

Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

By Ben Kepes on February 26, 2013

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent release of Cloud Foundry, and the significant uptake it has had in the marketplace have further […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, engineyard, heroku, platform services, salesforce.com, sap, SAP AG

FinancialForce on a Tear

FinancialForce on a Tear

By Ben Kepes on February 21, 2013

When salesforce.com invested in FinancialForce a few years ago, there was keen interest in how this would help the company grow. There’s never been much clarity around those numbers since the parent company of FinancialForce, Unit4, doesn’t break out the individual numbers of operating divisions. That is a bit clearer now since in its last reporting period, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged accounting, CloudComputing, Economic growth, FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite, Professional Services Automation, United States

Managing customers' expectations when moving your company’s application or service into the Cloud

Managing customers’ expectations when moving your company’s application or service into the Cloud

By Guest Authors on February 20, 2013

In my last post, I outlined some of the challenges technology vendors often face when confronted with customer demands that don’t meet the vendors’ cloud providers’ contractual obligations.  Now let’s talk about some of the strategies I’ve used to bridge these gaps when negotiating with the cloud service provider.  Get your customer and your cloud […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged CloudComputing, contract, legal, rfp

Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

By Ben Kepes on February 4, 2013

The fact that cloud computing means that technology is democratized and available to all is either the best thing ever, or the worst thing ever. For business units it’s great – it gives them the ability to acquire technology without going through the often long and torturous process with IT. For IT and CFOs, however, technology democratization is painful…

Posted in Business | Tagged Chief financial officer, cloudability, CloudComputing, Mat Ellis, Tyler Sloat, zuora | 1 Response

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

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

By Ben Kepes on January 4, 2013

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and Heroku was creating a real gravity pull for developers and that Salesforce was primed to be […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged CloudComputing, engineyard, force.com, heroku, platform services, salesforce.com, software as a service, Visual Basic | 4 Responses

Cloud research: Cost matters most and confusion remains

Cloud research: Cost matters most and confusion remains

By Michael Krigsman on December 26, 2012

Although cloud computing holds the promise of innovation and business transformation, buyers remain focused on cost and are confused over license models.

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged CIO, Cloud computing security, CloudComputing, enterprise software, IT service management, KPMG, Service level agreement | 1 Response

Cloud Computing and Distributed Computing, Something is Broken

Cloud Computing and Distributed Computing, Something is Broken

By Adron Hall on December 19, 2012

First off, I’m going to start off with some definitions to clarify things for this conversation. Cloud Computing, in general, has been perverted to mean almost anything available for sale today in technology. It’s rhetorically stupid. But we all still use the term to some degree. Going back to cloud computing at the core, we’re […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged architecture, CloudComputing, distributed computing, distributed database, Relational database management system, servers, sql | 2 Responses

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

By Ben Kepes on November 9, 2012

My background and entry into the technology industry came from my experience wrangling tech for a number of different small and mid-sized businesses. I’ve seen first hand just how much work is involved in tailoring discrete solutions into something that actually meets the specific needs of the business. This is even more difficult for resource […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Application programming interface, CloudComputing, Extract transform load, IBM, quickbooks, salesforce.com, SnapLogic, software as a service, venturebeat | 1 Response

Nonsense "Cloud" Marketing, Kill The Cloud Already, Please!

Nonsense “Cloud” Marketing, Kill The Cloud Already, Please!

By Adron Hall on November 5, 2012

PSA: “Warning: Cloud Washing is in FULL EFFECT! Be cautious or you could be bitten by this nasty virus, a rant on marketing nonsense.” Yesterday I was buying a router. The router I ended up getting has a USB port for attaching a drive as a NAS for media. Not for file sharing, but simply for […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged Business-to-business, cloud, cloud computing, cloud computing is dead, cloud washing, CloudComputing, data model, e-commerce | 2 Responses

Continuuity Launches Big Data Application Fabric–Warning: Buzzwords Abound

Continuuity Launches Big Data Application Fabric–Warning: Buzzwords Abound

By Ben Kepes on October 23, 2012

Coming out of stealth today at Strata and Hadoop World is Continuuity, a company that is looking to position itself within the PaaS landscape as it gives organizations the ability to build, deploy and scale big data apps. All of which sounds dangerously like buzzword heaven so it’s worth taking a look at what Continuuity […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, big data, CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, Continuuity, platform services, programming, software as a service

RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility

RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility

By Ben Kepes on September 26, 2012

An interesting recent trend I’ve been seeing is that of new vendors differentiating their cloud service through giving customers ultimate flexibility around what they use on their cloud – rather than shoehorning them into a couple of OS options, or a few pre-defined server sizes and specs, these vendors provide

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, CloudComputing, eucalyptus, openstack, operating system, organization, rightscale

Thor Project Opens Up, Building the Cloud Foundry Ecosystem with the Community

Thor Project Opens Up, Building the Cloud Foundry Ecosystem with the Community

By Adron Hall on September 17, 2012

The Iron Foundry Team are big advocates of open source software. We write code across all sorts of languages, just like many of the development shops out there do. Sometimes we’re heavy on the .NET, other times we’re all up in some Java, Ruby on Rails, spooling up a Node.js Application or something else. So …

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Posted in Open Source | Tagged .NET, .NET Bits, .NET Framework, Apple Programming, Awesome Coders, c#, cloud foundry, CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, cocoa, Coding Adventures, csharp, dotnet, iron foundry, Javascript, Metro UI, Microsoft Windows, obj-c, objc, objective-c, open source software, os-x, oss, platform as a service, platform services, software as a service, thor, thorproject, ui, ux, vmware, windows, windows 7, windows 8, winrt

Analyst?  Commentator?  Advisor?  Investor?  What’s In a Name?

Analyst? Commentator? Advisor? Investor? What’s In a Name?

By Ben Kepes on September 12, 2012

For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how best to describe what I “do”. I run Diversity, a pretty diverse (hence the name) operation which covers a bunch of different things – I spend time evangelizing about Cloud Computing, I opine on the technology landscape, I consult to large technology

Posted in Business | Tagged CloudComputing, Diversity Limited, Krishnan Subramanian, organization, Rishidot Research, techcrunch | 1 Response

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