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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

TechCrunch LA

Google Cloud today announced the official opening of its Las Vegas data center region. With this, Google Cloud now operates four regions in the western U.S., with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; The Dalles, Ore.

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

Google today announced that it has partnered with Sony Pictures Imageworks , Sony’s visual effects and animation studio, to launch OpenCue , an open source render manager. Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform.

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Airset: Your Own Personal Cloud Computer

Tech Zulu Event

Airset gives you your own Personal Cloud Computer and the ability to add groups of Cloud Computers to your Cloud Network. Each cloud computer has an expandable hard disk, a rich suite of web applications, and acts as a web server publishing content.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. And they need it because nobody senior at Stripe, Discord, Coinbase or for that matter Facebook, Google or Snap is leaving without a ton of incentives to do so. Hot, Flat & Crowded.” What Has Changed in Financing?

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Explaining FNAC: Feature, Not a Company

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We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. Google has Google Voice. It’s about 10 minutes long. It’s a fun 10-minute interview that you might enjoy watching.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Not Google.