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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

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Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Start-ups in the Cloud ?? Challenges and Opportunities

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The global cloud computing market is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012, according to IBM based on various market estimates. Please join the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum for their annual software program this year focusing on Cloud Computing.

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

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Among those startups is San Diego-based Independa (www.independa.com) , which is trying to crack the code to figure out how to apply the convergence of wireless technology, cloud computing, and software to elderly care. Cloud computing is also very important. Kian Saneii: 2012 is a big year for us.

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Arterys, GE Healthcare to Roll Out Next-Gen MRI Scans of Heart

Xconomy

Less than five years ago, those GPUs weren’t available from commercial cloud services, says Arterys co-founder and chief technology officer John Axerio-Cilies. “In In 2012, when we started, Amazon had just released the GPUs into the public cloud,” Axerio-Cilies says. That opened a door for GE Healthcare’s next-gen cardiac MRI.

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What’s Causing The IT Talent Shortage?

Tech Zulu Event

Even back in 2012, Ben Rooney of the Wall Street Journal wrote on the small number of workers within the field of big data. Even with improvements in technology and big data platforms, there still isn’t enough talent. I wish I could offer a glimmer of hope, but unfortunately, many are already feeling these effects.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. Cloud Architecture – Most cloud projects are now built on OpenStack an open source virtualization platform.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. TenHands has a powerful platform that enables partners to easily add Real-Time Communiations (RTC) for video and voice. Who are the founders and their backgrounds?