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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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Cloud Computing is Not All Sunshine Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing is all the rage in the startup world these days. A typical definition (from Wikipedia) is that “cloud computing, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.”

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Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs

socalTECH

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

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Thanks to our sponsors!

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We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. He joined WebVisible, a leading provider of local online marketing software and services, as chief operating officer in 2009 and was elevated to CEO in 2010.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. I guess the “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap&# mentality convinced this retailer that they could do the same with cloud services. Work it did. Processing. Think about it.

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