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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. We open these doorways.”

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Google Aims At Hollywood With LA Cloud Services Move

socalTECH

In a move designed to attract more customers from the media and entertainment industry, Google said this week that it will be opening up a new Los Angeles cloud region to its cloud computing platform, Google Cloud.

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DTS Links Into Microsoft Azure Cloud

socalTECH

Calabasas-based audio processing technology developer DTS is linking into Microsoft's cloud computing service, Microsoft Azure, according to the company. According to DTS, its content encoding technology will be available via the cloud through Microsoft Azure's Media Encoder Premium service. READ MORE>>.

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5 Current Technologies Still Have Room For Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

The next phase of evolution will demand device independence, enabling an uninterrupted computing experience as we move from device to device throughout our daily lives. Cloud Computing. Platform as a Service (PaaS). Social Media. The challenge for most businesses is determining how to best harness the potential.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum.

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

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Ford’s Autonomic Pairs With Alibaba Cloud On Mobility Hub for China

Xconomy

Ford’s recently acquired unit Autonomic , which co-created the automaker’s Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), inked a deal Tuesday to partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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