Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability
One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the...
View ArticleOn Being Appointed to the Cloudability Advisory Board
Earlier this year I attended the GigaOm Structure conference and was interested to watch the companies demoing in the startup competition. A couple of us at the event were a little surprised that...
View ArticleControlMyCloud Goes Beta
One of the concerns that many people have when considering a move to the cloud is that of granular control. The last thing an organization wants is to open the flood gates to uncontrolled performance,...
View ArticleCloud Adoption, And The IT/Business Tension
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...
View ArticleCloudability Scores Huge Series A
Note – As detailed below, I’m an investor and adviser to Cloudability – disclosure is important so feel free to peruse my disclousre page. It’s exciting times at Cloudability HQ as the team announces...
View ArticleIn the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part Two
In part one of this post I talked about the lack of insight that currently exists over ROI for users of cloud computing. I actually contend that this is an underlying problem for IT generally and not...
View ArticleBarriers To Entry – Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum
A theme I’ve been exploring over the past year or so has been the barriers to cloud adoption. Time spent with organizations using cloud has shown me just how valuable a move to the cloud can be – in...
View ArticleCloudability Goes GA, Launches Pro Offering
As I’m winging my way to the family reunion that is Defrag, Cloudability, a company I was a very early advisor and investor in, is announcing their product is coming out of beta and going General...
View ArticleOvercoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum
Recently, I moderated a CloudU roundtable that continued an ongoing theme of mine –overcoming the hurdles to greater cloud adoption. In this case we looked deeply at the cloud cost area. This is a...
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