socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2011

San Diego-based Nirvanix , which operates a cloud storage service, said today that it has named Steve Zivanic as the firm's new Vice President of Marketing. Nirvanix said Steve will be responsible for strategic marketing initiatives and driving brand awareness for the company. READ MORE>>.

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Marketing S3 San Diego Services 172

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2013

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the cloud storage service operator, has snagged the current CIO of Zynga as its new CEO, according to the company Monday. Current CEO Dru Borden will become Senior Vice President Planning and Development, and will remain on the company's board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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CIO Windward S3 Mission Ventures 138

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2010

Carlsbad-based Epics3 , a new startup focused on photo sharing through Twitter, Facebook, and other web sites, said today that it has launched its services. The new company, headed by Joe Moreno, said it will allow users to post photos to the web, and that it will share advertising revenue with users when people view their photos.

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S3 Web Advertising Sites 189

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

According to the firm, its new RIghtScale Grid Computing Solution Pack is targeted at grid processing on services such as Amazon Web Services. RightScale said the new software helps companies deploy, monitor, and manage grid processing applications in the cloud.

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S3 EC2 Product Cloud Computing 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the provider of cloud storage services, said today that it has raised another $10M in a funding, and appointed a new CEO. The company said that current President and CEO Jim Zierick will continue to serve on its advisory council.

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Windward S3 Mission Ventures San Diego 153

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2009

Lyon joins the company from Brocade Communications, where he was Director of Services Sales for the Americas. He has also served at storage integrator Glasshouse Technologies, in addition to serving at Exario Networks, EB Networks/RPM Consulting, Inrange Global Consulting, and CNT Professional Services. READ MORE>>.

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Sales S3 San Diego Networking 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Los Angeles-based ElephantDrive is targeting users of AOL's Xdrive service, the online data storage service that AOL said it is closing in January. According to ElephantDrive CEO Michael Fisher, the company will provide free file transfer from Xdrive to ElephantDrive for users, as well as a 30-day free trial account.

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S3 Southern California Los Angeles Services 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2009

San Diego-based Nirvanix, which operates an online, storage-as-a-service which competes against Amazon's S3 storage service, has shuffled its CEOs, the firm said today, replacing CEO Patrick Harr with Jim Zierick. Zierick has also previously been at Peregrine Systems and McKinsey & Company.

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Windward S3 Mission Ventures SaaS 100

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. So, if you''re a cloud storage provider, how do you get to the next level in terms of your service and company? Raghu Kulkami: We are an online backup storage and sync service. What is iDrive?

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Southern California Google S3 Symantec 133

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. application services (security, integration), etc. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services.

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JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 That’s awesome for users of Salesforce.com or companies that want to cater to them but less awesome for pure startups that want independence and are really just looking for cloud infrastructure. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Mobile gifting service. Company still in beta.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

What's your new startup all about, and why did you start the company? How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? They are making storage available to people or to institutions who have data they want to share publicly, for free, on S3. Is this similar?

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Startup Google S3 Platform 190

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Before working in California, Chris worked for Maryland based game companies MicroProse and Games Workshop. Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343