February 15, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloud is Simple. Well, It’s Real Complex but that Complexity Can, and Should, be Hidden from Users.

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU.  How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find.  If that’s your cup of tea,

Tagged Application programming interface, cloudcomputing, Information technology, James Urquhart, linkedin, Sam Johnston |
February 14, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

WorldDesk and DropBox Make a Truly Virtual Desktop

By Ben Kepes

A few days ago a little battle raged around what the launch of Google’s GDrive product might mean for DropBox. At the time fellow Cloud watcher Alex Williams commented that DropBox has a lot of magic that would save its day – I wasn’t so sure but it’s nonetheless interesting

Tagged Cloud storage, Desktop virtualization, dropbox, google, Microsoft Windows, Virtual desktop |
February 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

OneBill Launches (Another) Subscription Commerce Platform

By Ben Kepes

Just when the world thought it was well provided for subscription commerce toolsets, OneBill is today launching its own take on this product area. Subscription billing is a massive area of opportunity as organizations look to gain increased flexibility and agility when it comes to selling their products in new

Tagged aria systems, google, linkedin, Recurly, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service, vindicia, zuora |
February 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director

By Ben Kepes

Ever since is launched, Nimbula has been focused on brining “Amazon-like†functionality to private data centers. There messaging has unwaveringly been about the agility and flexibility of the public cloud, for private data center operations. Their aim came another step closer today with the beta release of version two of

Tagged amazon, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, Nimbula, OpenStack, vCloud, VMware, VMware ESX |
February 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

6fusion Introduces Free Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere

By Ben Kepes

One of the key traits of cloud computing is the fact that it follows a utility model with resources able to be metered by use. That’s a glorious thing as lots of benefits drop out of that – the ability to pay by use, the ability to cost recover with

Tagged 6fusion, Central processing unit, cloudcomputing, vCloud, VMware, VMware vSphere, vSphere Client |
February 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

10000 Jobs, and All Requiring Cloud Skills. Who Said Cloud Was Just About IT?

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU.  How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find.  If that’s your cup of tea,

Tagged Business, cloudcomputing, Information technology, Professional certification, Skill |
February 9, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Google Drive, and Core Focus, and Dropbox

By Ben Kepes

News today (admittedly for the umpteenth time in the last few years) that Google looks likely to finally roll out its cloud storage product, G Drive. According to the WSJ; Drive allows people to store photos, documents and videos on Google’s servers so that they could be accessible from any

Tagged Cloud storage, dropbox, google, google docs, sugarsync, syncplicity, Wall Street Journal |
February 9, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud and the Enterprise

By Ben Kepes

Recently I spent a remarkably enjoyable hour chatting with Steve Gillmor and John Taschek on a special enterprise-focused Gillmor Gang. Somehow I was roped in to be the provocateur and judging by many of the comments on the back channel – it would seem I was successful. Over the next

Tagged cloud computing, John Taschek, MegaUpload, Service provider, Steve Gillmor, USA PATRIOT Act |
February 8, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Survey Shows Increased Adoption of NoSQL

By Ben Kepes

One of the more striking developments in the application database space in recent years has been the rise of unstructured databases. Aggregated under the heading “NoSQL†(not an ideal name it must be said), these unstructured database management systems don’t use SQL as their query language and are unhindered by

Tagged CouchBase, Database, Database management system, NoSQL, Relational database, SQL |
February 8, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Google Apps Security Tool from BetterCloud

By Ben Kepes

One of the key issues for organizations moving to Google for office productivity applications is the ability to enforce policy on end users around sharing outside of the organization. This issue is a good example of the tension that exists between keeping an offering as simple as possible, and ensuring

Tagged Cloud Sherpas, google, Google apps, google docs, Google Site, SherpaTools |

The Author

[image]Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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