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OTOY Launching Rendering Engine On Amazon EC2

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based cloud graphics company OTOY , a developer of cloud-based, game rendering engines, said Thursday that it will launch its Brigade path tracing and rendering technology to Amazon EC2. OTOY is led by Jules Urbach.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 What this meant was that rather than buying really expensive UNIX servers (and multiple machines in order to handle redundancy) we could buy cheap, replaceable servers for compute resources. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.